He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
AMBROSE BIERCEKnowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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