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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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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
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
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
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
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
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Brain Fact Himself Mindset Mysterious Nature
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Analysis Delusion Himself Philosophy
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Adventure Knowledge Old Sun Wisdom
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Degree Independence Intellectual
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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Each Other Hands International Separate Thief Union
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Black Color Optimism White
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Animal Born Egg Loud Lying
$Ambrose Bierce Quote - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.$

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Bad Mathematics People
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road

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