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Ambrose Bierce Quote - 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.

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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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Community Marriage Master Mistress Slave
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Belief Body History Invention Original People True
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
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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Beautiful Death Essential Example Poison
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Add Fools Funny Himself Time
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Contrast Fall Sense
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
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
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue

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