Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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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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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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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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