Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
AMBROSE BIERCELife – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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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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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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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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