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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Believe Divine Need Neighbor Religion Spiritual
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Company Interior Laughter Noise
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Faith Holy Ourselves Religion Scripture Writing
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time

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