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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More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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