A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
AMBROSE BIERCEDistance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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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.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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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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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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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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