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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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

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

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
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
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Fake Fools History Important Rule
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
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Box Defend Democracy Stage

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