In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
AMBROSE BIERCEKnowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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