Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
AMBROSE BIERCELIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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