War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
AMBROSE BIERCE
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce 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.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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