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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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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Governement Party Prevent Rival Run
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Breathe Conversation Listening Vocal
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
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
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Call Distance Poor Rich Willing
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue

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