The Frictionary # 796

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

7496. Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't. (Jim Murray)

7497. Modesty is always false modesty. (Jules Renard)

7498. [Adolescence]: Mope. Hope. Grope. (Maxine Davis)

7499. Without porn and anger the Internet would fall down. (Andy Borowitz)

7500. The sea teaches sailors dreams that the harbors murder. (Bernard Giraudeau)

7501. Religion, like poetry, is simply a concerted effort to deny the most obvious reality. (H.L. Mencken)

7502. It is a duty for politicians to speak out; when they are silent, we believe they're thinking. (André Frossard)

7503. There is a cult of ignorance in the U.S.A. (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. (Isaac Asimov)

7504. Each time you lend money to a friend, you damage his memory. (?)

7505. Solitude is a necessary condition for freedom. (Gao Xingjian)

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