Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
AMBROSE BIERCEEdible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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