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Ambrose Bierce

"Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience."

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"Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience."

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"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."

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"The gods are watching, but idly, yawning."

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"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

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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."
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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
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"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London."
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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
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"Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
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"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
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"Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you."
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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul."
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