Ambrose Bierce

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Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

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