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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More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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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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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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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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