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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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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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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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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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.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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