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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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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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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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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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