I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
AMBROSE BIERCELove: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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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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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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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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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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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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