The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
AMBROSE BIERCESaint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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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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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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