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13414 quotesLaziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Laziness
Ambrose Bierce
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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Learning
Ambrose Bierce
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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
Life and Living
Ambrose Bierce
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
Law Suits
Ambrose Bierce
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Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
Drugs
Ambrose Bierce
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Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Optimism
Ambrose Bierce
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Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
Patience
Ambrose Bierce
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Patriotism
Ambrose Bierce
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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Peace
Ambrose Bierce
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Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
Prophecy
Ambrose Bierce
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Religion
Ambrose Bierce
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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Ambrose Bierce
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Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited.
Saints
Ambrose Bierce
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
Success
Ambrose Bierce
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Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
Swearing
Ambrose Bierce
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The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Quotations
Ambrose Bierce
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The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
Gambling
Ambrose Bierce
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
Marriage
Ambrose Bierce
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
Vanity
Ambrose Bierce
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Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ambrose Bierce
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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
Planning
Ambrose Bierce
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Truth -- An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
Truth
Ambrose Bierce
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When in Rome, do as Rome does.
Cities and City Life
Ambrose Bierce
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Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Wit
Ambrose Bierce
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The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Oppression
Steven Biko
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun