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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Ambrose Bierce

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power
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
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Country Discover Fertilization Person
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Country Development Engagement Existence People Strife
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
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
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
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
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

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