Ambrose Bierce

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"Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions."	Freedom
"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."	Happiness
"Historian: A broad-gauge gossip."	Economics, History
"Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness."	Holidays
"Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude."	Holidays
"The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff."	Comedy, Honesty
"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."	Justice
"Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two."	Marriage
"Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing."	Philosophy
"Thank you to Hakon Agustsson of Photo Quotes for graciously allowing me to use some quotations from his site! Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."	Photography
"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."	Politics
"Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star."	Responsibility
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."	God, Technology
"Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent."	Time
"No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war."	Anti-Religion, War
"Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."	Art
"Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."	Politics
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