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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

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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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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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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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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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