An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
AMBROSE BIERCEMYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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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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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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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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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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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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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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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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