Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
AMBROSE BIERCEAborigines, 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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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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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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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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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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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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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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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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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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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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