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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advantage Affair Interest Principle Private
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Beautiful Death Essential Example Poison
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
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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Body Life Missing Spiritual
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man

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