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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Come Go Litigation Machine Out Pig Sausage Which You

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

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Attached Bigot Entertain Opinion Who You

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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

~Ambrose Bierce

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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Ancient Convenient Deity Drunk Excuse Getting Invented

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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Act Bread Deliberation Determine Examining Side Which

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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Education Foolish Lack Understanding Which Wise

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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Bloody Country Depends Every Existence Good Hard Nation Needs Occasionally Patriotism Revive Vice War Which

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

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Arrangement Believes Civilization Ingenious Inventor Makes Person Springs Wheels Who

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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Battle Knot Method Political Teeth Tongue Would Yield

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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

~Ambrose Bierce

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 24th, 1842

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