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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

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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
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Affair Assurance Future Happiness Prosperity Time
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Love Marriage Sanity Temporary
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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God Place Teaching War
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Concession Demand Resort
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Angry Best Regret Talk Yourself
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Company Interior Laughter Noise
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity

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