“Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.”
Famous“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.”
Intelligence“Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.”
Famous“Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.”
Technology“Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”
Art“Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.”
Technology“The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.”
Best“It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.”
Change“Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.”
Men“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
Fear“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.”
Good“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”
Art“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.”
Failure“Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.”
Success“Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.”
Age“Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.”
Politics“Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.”
Hope“Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.”
Power“Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.”
Money“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.”
Time“Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.”
Beauty“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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