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Ambrose Bierce Quote - RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fear Hope Ignorance Known Religion
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Breathe Conversation Listening Vocal
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Himself Listening Person Talk
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
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Disguise Education Understand Wisdom
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Country Discover Fertilization Person
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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Animal Digest Eat Goodness Man Science

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