Ambrose Bierce
"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."
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"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."
Ambrose Bierce
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."
Ambrose Bierce
"Perseverance n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success."
Ambrose Bierce
"Heathen n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel."
Ambrose Bierce
"Infidel n: in New York one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople one who does."
Ambrose Bierce
"Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star."
Ambrose Bierce
"Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own."
Ambrose Bierce
"Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
Ambrose Bierce
"Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."
Ambrose Bierce
"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket."
Ambrose Bierce
"Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two."
Ambrose Bierce
"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
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