Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.Ambrose Bierce
PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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Certainty, When one is mistaken at the top of ones voice.
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GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
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PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that 'Stone walls do not a prison make,' but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets.
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GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.
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