Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
AMBROSE BIERCEI think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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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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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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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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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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