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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Marriage People Person Support
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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Age Believe Fools Hard Thinking Wisdom Young
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Faith Holy Ourselves Religion Scripture Writing
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Country Development Engagement Existence People Strife
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War

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