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Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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