Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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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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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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