Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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