Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
AMBROSE BIERCEPatriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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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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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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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.
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MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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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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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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