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Ambrose Bierce
: Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
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Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
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Alexis De Tocqueville :
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
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Horatio Nelson :
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I cannot command winds and weather.
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Thomas Fuller :
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Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
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Jerome K Jerome :
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The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
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Robert A Heinlein :
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Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
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Jonathan Swift :
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'Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.
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John Ruskin :
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Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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Oscar Wilde :
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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else.
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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
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Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
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Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
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An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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