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Ambrose Bierce Quote - There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Belief Body History Invention Original People True
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Appearance Art Color Fools White
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship
$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Brain Fact Himself Mindset Mysterious Nature
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself

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