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Mausoleum: The final and funniest folly of the rich.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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Riches: A gift from Heaven signifying, "This is my beloved son, in whom I
am well pleased."
-- John D. Rockefeller, (slander by Ambrose Bierce)
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| Linux Cookie: 627 of 1140 |
All things are either sacred or profane.
The former to ecclesiasts bring gain;
The latter to the devil appertain.
-- Dumbo Omohundro
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| Linux Cookie: 628 of 1140 |
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| Linux Cookie: 629 of 1140 |
Forty two.
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| Linux Cookie: 630 of 1140 |
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| Linux Cookie: 631 of 1140 |
Absolute: Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which
the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not
many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by
limited monarchies, where the soverign's power for evil (and for good) is
greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| Linux Cookie: 632 of 1140 |
Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a
pleasure. 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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| Linux Cookie: 633 of 1140 |
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their
hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately
plunder a third.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| Linux Cookie: 634 of 1140 |
Disobedience: The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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