Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
AMBROSE BIERCEWhat 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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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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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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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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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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