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Ambrose Bierce Quote - In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
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
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
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
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Appearance Earth Face Genius God Leaving Nature Original Root Woman
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
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
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Business Cheating Complete Steal Success
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World

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