Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
AMBROSE BIERCELife – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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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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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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