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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Beautiful Belief Optimism Ugly
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
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
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Avoid People Selfish
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Brain Fact Himself Mindset Mysterious Nature
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Appearance Earth Face Genius God Leaving Nature Original Root Woman
$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
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
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship
Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Business Cheating Complete Steal Success
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself

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