Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
From Ambrose Bierce
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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