Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
AMBROSE BIERCEThey say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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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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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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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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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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