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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.

Ambrose Bierce

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
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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Beautiful Death Essential Example Poison
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Believe Divine Need Neighbor Religion Spiritual
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Call Distance Poor Rich Willing
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
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.
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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Fake Fools History Important Rule
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private

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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