True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
AMBROSE BIERCEMarriage, 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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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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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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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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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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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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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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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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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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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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