To the eye of failure success is an accident.
AMBROSE BIERCEKnowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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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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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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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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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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