A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.
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