Tag: Ambrose Bierce
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one’s bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
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Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can’t find you.
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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