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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.

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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
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
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
REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Body Life Missing Spiritual
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
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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Community Marriage Master Mistress Slave
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
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
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
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
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Affair Assurance Future Happiness Prosperity Time
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
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

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