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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.
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SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.
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Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an old man. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an old book.
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Think twice before you speak to a friend in need
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ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.
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Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.
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At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.
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CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
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DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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