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Ambrose Bierce(American author and journalist; born 1842; died 1913)
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify. [Select] {Category: Wisdom and Ignorance} Love: A temporary insanity cureable either by marriage or by removal of the influences under which he incurred the disorder. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than the patient. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Category: Love and Hate} Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Category: Success and Failure} Politeness: The most acceptable hypocrisy. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Category: Altruism and Cynicism} Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be nullified on behalf of a single petitioner, admittedly unworthy. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Category: Science and Religion} Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Categories: Health and Disease, Life and Death} Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Category: War and Peace} The covers of this book are too far apart. [Select] {Category: Altruism and Cynicism} Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Category: Law and Politics}
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