Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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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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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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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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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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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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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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