Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
AMBROSE BIERCELove: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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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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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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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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