Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
AMBROSE BIERCEBrain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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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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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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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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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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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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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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