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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Each Other Hands International Separate Thief Union
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Confirm Degree Democracy Reward
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Division Domain Forever Hope Present
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Governement Party Prevent Rival Run

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