ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
AMBROSE BIERCEScriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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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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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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