RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
AMBROSE BIERCEThere is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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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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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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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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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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