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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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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
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
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
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
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private

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