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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.

Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.

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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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Administration Condition Country Failure Himself Leaving Person Politics Security
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Fake Fools History Important Rule
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
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
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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Art Charm Measurement Nature Worm
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
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
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Affair Assurance Future Happiness Prosperity Time
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument

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