Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose BierceAbnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.
Ambrose BierceA man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
Ambrose BierceBRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.
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