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    Amy Vanderbilt
    “I have no use for people who exhibit manners.”
    ― Amy Vanderbilt
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    Elias Canetti
    “Relearn astonishment.”
    ― Elias Canetti
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    Suzanne Collins
    “May the odds be ever in your favor!”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
    tags: benediction
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    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
    ― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: insanity, love, marriage
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: definitions, humor, quotations, quotes, satire
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: child, children, clothes, clothing, definition, humor, mothering, mothers, sweaters
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: egotism, humor, sarcasm, taste
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  • #9
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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  • #10
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: definition, humor
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: definition, humor, universe
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  • #12
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: false, holy-book, holy-religion, humor, irony, profane, sacred, scripture, scriptures
    193 likes

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  • #13
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: belief, definitions, evidence, humor, knowledge
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: cynicism, definition, honesty
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
    tags: education
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: definition
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: definition, humor, ocean, water
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
    Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
    Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: definition, humor, inspiration
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are
    four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and
    praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain
    whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for
    advantage of the lawyers.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: funny, homicide, humor
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: apologies, humor, offences, satire
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  • #21
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce , The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: definitions, sports
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: humor
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  • #23
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: daughter, fear, hope, humor, ignorance, nature
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: definition
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: amnesty, crime, humor, immigration, politics, punishment
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  • #27
    Ambrose Bierce
    “BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: beauty, humor, languages, poison
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: armor, blacksmith, clothing, humor, war
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  • #29
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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  • #30
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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