Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
AMBROSE BIERCECoward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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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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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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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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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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