Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
AMBROSE BIERCEElectricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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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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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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