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Ambrose Bierce Quote - The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
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
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Body Man Ocean World
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
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
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
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility

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