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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Device Profit Responsibility
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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Astrology Custom Easy Fate God Responsibility
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Happiness Temptation Weakness
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
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
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Delusion Experience Observation Reflection Save
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Act Repeat Word
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
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
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Call Distance Poor Rich Willing
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Division Domain Forever Hope Present

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