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

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

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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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