Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
AMBROSE BIERCEEulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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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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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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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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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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