Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
AMBROSE BIERCEAlliance – 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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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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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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Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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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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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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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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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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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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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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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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