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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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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
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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Age Head Himself See Thinking Wisdom
Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Business Cheating Complete Steal Success
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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Administration Condition Country Failure Himself Leaving Person Politics Security
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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Activity Diversity Equality Heart Human
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Fact Imagination Lying Poet
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Body Decay Life Selfish
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Ambition Himself Name Patriot
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
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Assasination Harmony Instrument
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White

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