Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Brain an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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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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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.
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Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.