Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
AMBROSE BIERCEWine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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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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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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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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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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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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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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