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Ambrose Bierce Quote - An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.

An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.

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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
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
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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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement

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