Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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