The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
AMBROSE BIERCEBore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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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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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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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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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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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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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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