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Ambrose Bierce Quote - 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.

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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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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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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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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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
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
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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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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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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