Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
AMBROSE BIERCEI think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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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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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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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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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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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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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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