Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
AMBROSE BIERCEEloquence, 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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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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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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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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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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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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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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