Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
AMBROSE BIERCEElectricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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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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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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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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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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