Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
AMBROSE BIERCEAccordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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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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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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