After-Orts #131

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. If all politicians fished instead of speaking publicly, we would be at peace with the world. 
     -- Will Rogers

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses. If a Republican had cannibals among his constituents, he’d promise them missionaries.
     -- H. L. Mencken

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. It has a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
     -- Mark Twain

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Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters finally in conversation together, three notes suddenly making a chord. 
     — Rebecca Solnit,  Wanderlust : A History of Walking


Of the seven deadly sins, only Envy is no fun at all.
     — Joseph Epstein