Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
AMBROSE BIERCEBrain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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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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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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Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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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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