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AMBROSE BIERCELogic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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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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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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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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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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