The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
AMBROSE BIERCE
AMBROSE BIERCE
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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.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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