Tag: Ambrose Bierce
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Amnesty, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Prejudice – a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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When you doubt, abstain.
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