Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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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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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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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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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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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 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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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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