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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Governement Party Prevent Rival Run
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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Believe Divine Need Neighbor Religion Spiritual
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Each Other Hands International Separate Thief Union
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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Age Believe Fools Hard Thinking Wisdom Young
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue

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