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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Believe Country Democracy Oneself Ruin
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
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Democracy Lamb Lunch Vote Wolf
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Delusion Experience Observation Reflection Save
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
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Appearance Earth Face Genius God Leaving Nature Original Root Woman

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