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

Ambrose Bierce
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  1. Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

  2. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

  3. You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.

  4. The covers of this book are too far apart.

  5. Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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