Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
AMBROSE BIERCEMYTHOLOGY, 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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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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