Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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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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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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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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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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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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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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