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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

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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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Division Domain Forever Hope Present
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
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
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person

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