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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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