There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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