Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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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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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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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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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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