Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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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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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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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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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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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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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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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.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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