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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

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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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
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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Community Marriage Master Mistress Slave
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Entertainment Innocent Military Popular
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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Administration Condition Country Failure Himself Leaving Person Politics Security
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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Country Development Engagement Existence People Strife
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Faith Holy Ourselves Religion Scripture Writing
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
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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Believe Country Democracy Oneself Ruin
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying

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