Ambrose Bierce

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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."	Anger
"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect."	Love, Conformity
"Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs."	Courage
"Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions."	Freedom
"Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing."	Philosophy
"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."	Politics
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."	God, Technology
"Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."	Politics
"Can I ask a rhetorical question? Well, can I?"	God, Stupidity
"Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness."	Holidays
"Commerce, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E."	Business
"I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities."	Fear
"A Christian is one who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin."	Fear
"Women would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands."	Friendship, Dreams
"Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable."	God, Stupidity
"Circus, n: A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to so men, women and children acting the fool."	God, Stupidity
"House, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe."	Quotations
"No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war."	Anti-Religion, War
"Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two."	Marriage
"The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff."	Comedy, Honesty
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