Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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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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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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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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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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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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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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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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