Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
AMBROSE BIERCEDivorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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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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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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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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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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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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