Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
AMBROSE BIERCEPhilosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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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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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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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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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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LIFE, 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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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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