Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
AMBROSE BIERCESaint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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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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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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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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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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