Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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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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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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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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