"Marriage, n.: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two."

Society, Marriage, Power, Irony, Union

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"Marriage, n.: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two."

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"Edible - 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."

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"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."

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"The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge."

Knowledge, Ignorance, Name

"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations."

History, Acquaintance, Nations

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

Art, Sun

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."

Family, Mother, Feeling

"Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly."

Trust, Belief, Optimism, Doctrine, Ugly

"It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better."

Change, Man, Skepticism

"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion."

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"Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."

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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Nobody's sane above the law."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."

Stephen King, American Author

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