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作者：Ambrose Bierce [全部名言]

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“Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- I think I think, therefore, I think I am.”

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“Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”

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“Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”

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“Optimism, n. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.”

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“Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.”

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“Lawyer, n. One skilled in the circumvention of the law.”

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“Phonograph, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.”

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“Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.”

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“Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.”

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“Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.”

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“Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.”

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“Lawsuit n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.”

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“Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.”

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“Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”

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“Pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.”

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“Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.”

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“Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”

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“Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.”

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“Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.”

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“The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.”

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