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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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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
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
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Governement Party Prevent Rival Run
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Belief Manifestation Opinion Statement
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Final Funny Rich
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
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Man Philosophy True Woman
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Labor Pregnant Property
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
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Death End Estate Himself
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary Divorce Relationship

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