REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
AMBROSE BIERCEConservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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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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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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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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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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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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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Alliance – 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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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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