Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
AMBROSE BIERCELove: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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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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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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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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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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