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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Quote 3085
Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husbandMore quotes on the topics: beauty power force charm admiration marriage
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Quote 1835
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable -
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellowsMore quotes on the topics: success forgiveness people
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Quote 524
Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than anotherMore quotes on the topics: preference opinion homeland stranger
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Quote 498
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at mathMore quotes on the topics: money people weakness stupidity chance
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Quote 489
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.More quotes on the topics: decision worthlessness aims
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Quote 486
Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting -
Quote 485
Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his countryMore quotes on the topics: vote power homeland liberty decision
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Quote 478
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a dayMore quotes on the topics: revenge death penalty injustice age lifetime
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Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law -
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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. -
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Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.More quotes on the topics: diplomacy falsehood homeland patriotism
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Quote 373
Opposition: In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.More quotes on the topics: opposition prevention politics
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Quote 359
Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be -
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.More quotes on the topics: world people performance
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Quote 338
Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent -
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Jealous: Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping -
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorderMore quotes on the topics: love disease marriage influence disorder
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Quote 272
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate -
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Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocketMore quotes on the topics: body
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Quote 251
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointmentsMore quotes on the topics: disappointment time sadness
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Quote 236
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth whileMore quotes on the topics: patience revenge worth meekness intentions
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Quote 122
Wedding: A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.More quotes on the topics: marriage unity commitment weakness
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Quote 116
Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me -
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A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical studentMore quotes on the topics: death experience learning
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Quote 104
Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white -
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Optimism: The doctrine or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrongMore quotes on the topics: optimism opinion changes confidence
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Quote 90
Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, twoMore quotes on the topics: marriage community common ground tasks
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Friendship: A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foulMore quotes on the topics: reliability superficiality support compassion
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