Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch th

Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the worlds worship. – Ambrose Bierce

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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. – Ambrose Bierce

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Eating
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. – Ambrose Bierce

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Technology
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Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection. – Ambrose Bierce

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Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend. Inside of a dog its too dark to read. – Groucho Marx

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Dogs

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. – Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Laughter

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Dogs

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing. – Robert Brault

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Dogs

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people. – Karel ÄŒapek

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Dogs

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And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction. – John Motson

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I defend both the freedom of expression and societys right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Freedom

The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered. – Walter Rudolf Hess

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positive

The strongest nation on earth is your imagi-nation. – Matt Furey

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Imagination