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Ambrose Bierce Quote - LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

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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.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Affair Assurance Future Happiness Prosperity Time
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Beautiful Death Essential Example Poison
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Breathe Conversation Listening Vocal
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.
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Each Other Hands International Separate Thief Union
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Fake Fools History Important Rule
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom

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