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.
AMBROSE BIERCEBelladonna, 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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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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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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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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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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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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