Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
AMBROSE BIERCELogic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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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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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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REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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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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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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