Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
AMBROSE BIERCETrue, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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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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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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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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