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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Corporation Device Individual Ingenious Obtaining Profit Responsibility Without

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

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Coward Emergency His Legs Perilous Thinks Who

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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Child Chilly Feeling Garment Mother Sweater Worn

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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Conservative Distinguished Enamored Evils Existing Liberal Others Replace Statesman Them Who Wishes

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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Cynic Ought Sees Things Vision Whose

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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Book Dust Empty Out Shaken Skull

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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Belief Evidence Faith Knowledge Parallel Speaks Things Who Without

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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Cares Civilization Form Government Highly Honored Intelligence Office Our Republican Rewarded

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The covers of this book are too far apart.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Apart Book Covers Far Too

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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Art Instruction Painted Photograph Picture Sun Without

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 24th, 1842

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