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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
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
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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God Man One Liner Reason Sleep
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Marriage People Person Support
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
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason

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