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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

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Politics is the management of public affairs for the benefit of individuals.

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Ambrose Bierce

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Optimism is the belief that everything is beautiful.

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Ambrose Bierce

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Marriage: State or condition of a community composed of a master, a concubine, and two slaves, all within just two people.

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

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Making a game of business cannot be compared with the business of gaming.

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

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A coward is a person in whom the instinct of self-preservation still functions normally.

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Reasoning: weighing probabilities on the scale of desire.

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Planning: worrying about finding the best method to achieve an accidental result.

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Ambrose Bierce

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In international affairs, peace is a period of traps between two struggles.

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The voter enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for a candidate chosen by others.

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Ambrose Bierce

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Doubt is the mother of discovery.

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There is nothing new under the sun, but how many old things there are that we do not know.

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Quoting is a way of repeating another person's words erroneously.

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