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Ambrose Bierce Quote - An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.

An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.

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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Country Discover Fertilization Person
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Assassination Character Weapon
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
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accident Eyes Failure Perspective Success
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Electricity Natural Reason
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Country Fools Freedom Instrument Power
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Confession Law Prayer Universe Worth
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Marriage People Person Support
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
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Conscience Destitution Forget Gift God
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
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking

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