Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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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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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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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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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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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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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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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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