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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Country Discover Fertilization Person
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
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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Community Marriage Master Mistress Slave
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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Astrology Custom Easy Fate God Responsibility
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God

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