Tag: Ambrose Bierce
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
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Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one’s voice.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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A man is known by the company he organizes.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one’s voice.
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