Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
AMBROSE BIERCEDon’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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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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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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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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