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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

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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
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
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
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person

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