INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection’s failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
—Ambrose Bierce
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Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy.
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Insurance—an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
—Ambrose Bierce