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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
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
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Belief Body History Invention Original People True
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Faith Holy Ourselves Religion Scripture Writing
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Confession Law Prayer Universe Worth
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself
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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Fake Fools History Important Rule
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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