Tag: Ambrose Bierce
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London.
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man’s choice, and is highly prized.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
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Erudition – dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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