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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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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
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
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
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
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man

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