Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
AMBROSE BIERCEFuture. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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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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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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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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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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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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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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