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Ambrose Bierce Quote - In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

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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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
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
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
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
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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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
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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Age Believe Fools Hard Thinking Wisdom Young
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument

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