Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Consul – 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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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Consul – 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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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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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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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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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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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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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.
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