Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
AMBROSE BIERCEAlliance – 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.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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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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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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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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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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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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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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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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