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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo»
«Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.»
«LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.»
«ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.»
«Here's to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands»
«Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.»
«CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.»
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«PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.»
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«DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.»
«FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.»