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Ambrose Bierce Quote - There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.

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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
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
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
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
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
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
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

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