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• So far the only successful substitute for brains is silence.
• Lie, n.: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
• Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
  -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)...
• INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Cigarette, n.: A fire at one end, a fool at the other, and a bit of tobacco in between.
• COURT FOOL, n. The plaintiff. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary