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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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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
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
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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Age Believe Fools Hard Thinking Wisdom Young
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Delusion Experience Observation Reflection Save
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
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
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
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
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small

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