Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
AMBROSE BIERCEQuotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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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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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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