Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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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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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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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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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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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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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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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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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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