Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull

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Gravitación, s. Tendencia de todos los cuerpos a acercarse unos a otros con fuerza proporcional a la cantidad de materia que contienen; la cantidad de materia que contienen se determina por la tendencia a acercarse unos a otros. Bello y edificante ejemplo de cómo la ciencia, después de hacer de A la prueba de B, hace de B la prueba de A.

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Злословие.- Злобно да приписваш на друг глупави постъпки, които сам не си имал случай или изкушението да извършиш.

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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

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Debt is an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

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Mots clés debt



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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

Ambrose Bierce

Mots clés humor philosopher delusion lunatics



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MAN, n.
An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

Ambrose Bierce

Mots clés humor humanity humour mankind humans



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Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

Ambrose Bierce

Mots clés humor sarcasm taste egotism



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Brower was as courageous a criminal as ever lived to be hanged.

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Mots clés dark-humor



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Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

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Mots clés meaning influence idiot tribe



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