REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
AMBROSE BIERCELottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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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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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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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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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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