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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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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Governement Party Prevent Rival Run
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Care Civilization Government Intelligence Ourselves Reward
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Division Domain Forever Hope Present
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition Death Desire Enemy Friendship
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Confession Law Prayer Universe Worth
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money

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