Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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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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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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