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Ambrose Bierce Quote - LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Belief Body History Invention Original People True
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Community Marriage Master Mistress Slave
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Business Cheating Complete Steal Success

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