Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
AMBROSE BIERCELogic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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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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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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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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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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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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