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| #3161 | | Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| #3162 | | Absolute: Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which
the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not
many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by
limited monarchies, where the soverign's power for evil (and for good) is
greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| #3163 | | Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a
pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but
abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| #3164 | | Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their
hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately
plunder a third.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| #3165 | | Disobedience: The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| #3166 | | Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| #3167 | | Administration: An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive
the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| #3168 | | A penny saved is a penny to squander.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| #3169 | | Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man --
who has no gills.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| #3170 | | Physician: One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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