April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
AMBROSE BIERCELaughter, 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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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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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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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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