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Ambrose Bierce Quote - He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Administration Condition Country Failure Himself Leaving Person Politics Security
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
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
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Confession Law Prayer Universe Worth
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
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
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
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
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Body Man Ocean World

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