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Aphorist Inspirational Quotes (5897)

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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
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Genius - to know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
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SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.
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EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
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DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
Antonio Porchia
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Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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