A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
AMBROSE BIERCEA 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.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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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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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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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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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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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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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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The 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.
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