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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
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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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Call Distance Poor Rich Willing
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Breathe Conversation Listening Vocal

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