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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
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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Appearance Art Color Fools White
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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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
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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