War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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The 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.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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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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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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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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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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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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