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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
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
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
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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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
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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