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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Death End Estate Himself
$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Bad Mathematics People
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.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship
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
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
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
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
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Box Defend Democracy Stage
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God

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