Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing ... to the end of time.Ambrose Bierce
GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
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PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
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CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
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REVERENCE, n. The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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