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«Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.»
«LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion --thus:_Major Premise_: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man._Minor Premise_: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore --_Conclusion_: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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accordance, arithmetical, certainty, combining, conclusion, consisting, dig, double, limitations, major, minor, minor premise, misunderstanding, obtain, piece of work, posthole, premise, premised, reasoning, seconds, sixty, strict, syllogism, syllogisms, The Art of Reasoning
«Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Cynicism
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blackguard, blackguards, cynic, faulty, n a
«Valor is a soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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compound, gambler, gamblers, soldierly, The Gambler, valor
«IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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immigrant, immigrants, One Country, unenlightened
«WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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attractive, in league, league, League of, old woman, repulsive, the Devil, The Witches, ugly, wicked, wickedness, witch, witching, young woman
«In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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ass, diversity, due to, Human heart, nightingale, nightingales, pig, tiger, unequal, unequal to
«ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Elector, electors, enjoys, privilege, voting
«ACHIEVEMENT, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.»
«Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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egotist, egotists, interested, In Me, low, taste
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