Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
AMBROSE BIERCEDeath is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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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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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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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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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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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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