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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Bierce

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Faith Holy Ourselves Religion Scripture Writing
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
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
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
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
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Instrument Worst
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Beautiful Death Essential Example Poison
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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Each Other Hands International Separate Thief Union

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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