Quote by Ambrose Bierce
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Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. – Ambrose Bierce

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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce

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Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. – Ambrose Bierce

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I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. Ive got a dry sense of humor. – Katie Price

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Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. – Eric Sevareid

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I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and its humor thats often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery. – Danny Boyle

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Humor is mankinds greatest blessing. – Mark Twain

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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. – Toni Morrison

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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. – Richard Bach

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