Ambrose Bierce Quotes on age

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage... view

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Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage... view

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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage... view

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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage... view

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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two... view

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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead... view

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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age... view

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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy... view

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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age... view

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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions... view

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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head... view

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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance... view

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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized... view

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