The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
AMBROSE BIERCEMad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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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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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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