Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
AMBROSE BIERCEPray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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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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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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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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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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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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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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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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