Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
AMBROSE BIERCELogic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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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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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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