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Ambrose Bierce Quote - PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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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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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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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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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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