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.
AMBROSE BIERCELottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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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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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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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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