War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
AMBROSE BIERCEBore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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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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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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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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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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