Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
AMBROSE BIERCELAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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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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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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