Tag: Ambrose Bierce
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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Enthusiasm – a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
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