Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
AMBROSE BIERCEPrescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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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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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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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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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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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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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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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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