In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
AMBROSE BIERCEDistance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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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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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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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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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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