IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
AMBROSE BIERCEAbstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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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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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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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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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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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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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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