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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.

Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.

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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Children Cold Compassionate Feeling Love Mom
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Believe Country Democracy Oneself Ruin
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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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
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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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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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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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small

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