Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
AMBROSE BIERCEConsul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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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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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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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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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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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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REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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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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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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