The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
AMBROSE BIERCEMayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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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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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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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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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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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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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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