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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. ↗

— 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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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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