Tag: Ambrose Bierce
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow.
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