Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Justice Quotes, Rewards Quotes

Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

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Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

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COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

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BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

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EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

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MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.

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Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.

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ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

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adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.

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ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.

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Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

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Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

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Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy.... Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one-the knowledge and the dream.

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Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

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