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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
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
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Affection Creature Dog World
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
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
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private
$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People

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