Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
AMBROSE BIERCEAccordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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