I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
AMBROSE BIERCEConversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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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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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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