The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
AMBROSE BIERCEBrain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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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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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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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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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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