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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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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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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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