Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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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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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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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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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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