Tag: Ambrose Bierce
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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Land: A part of the earth’s surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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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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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely, that he is a blockhead.
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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
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