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Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Childhood: 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.
- Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
- Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
- Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
- Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
- Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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