Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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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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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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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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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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