Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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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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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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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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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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