Stefan Posthuma

Stefan Posthuma

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Cigarette: A fire at one end, a fool at the other, and a bit of tobacco in between.
Collaboration: A literary partnership based on the false assumption that the other fellow can spell.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking. -- H. L. Mencke
Conversation: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
The cow is nothing but a machine with makes grass fit for us people to eat.
-- John McNulty...
Cynic: One who looks through rose-colored glasses with a jaundiced eye.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
-- G. B. Shaw...
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
Electrocution: Burning at the stake with all the modern improvements.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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