Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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