The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted t…

Ambrose Bierce
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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist. ✨ Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Jerome Hopkins (1968). The Ambrose Bierce satanic reader: selections from the invective journalism of the great satirist
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Il … ▶
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. ✨ The Devil's Dictionary
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2000). Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories, p.26, Penguin
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.148, University of Georgia Press
PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.189, University of Georgia Press

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