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Ambrose Bierce Quote - ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
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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Country Development Engagement Existence People Strife
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
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Believe Country Democracy Oneself Ruin

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