Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are...

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are...

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of...

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of...

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to...

FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to...

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as...

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as...

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of...

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of...

Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they...

Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they...

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or...

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or...

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored...

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored...

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable

JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells...

JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells...

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following...

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following...

Scriptures: the sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane...

Scriptures: the sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane...

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by...

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by...

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to...

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to...

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes...

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes...