The covers of this book are too far apart.
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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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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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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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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