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Ambrose Bierce Quote - In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

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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$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
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
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
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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Avoid Mindset Ourselves Reflection Relationship
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
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
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
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort

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