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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Body Life Missing Spiritual
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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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
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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Marriage People Person Support
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Faith Holy Ourselves Religion Scripture Writing
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Call Distance Poor Rich Willing

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