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   “MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earh and Canada.
When the world was young and Man was new, And everything was pleasant, Distinctions Nature never drew
'Mongst kings and priest and peasant. We're not that way at present, Save here in this Republic, where We have that old regime, For all are kings, however bare Their backs, howe'er extreme Their hunger. And, indeed, each has a voice To accept the tyrant of his party's choice.
A citizen who would not vote, And, therefore, was detested, Was one day with a tarry coat
(With feathers backed and breasted) By patriots invested.
"It is your duty," cried the crowd,
"Your ballot true to cast For the man o' your choice." He humbly bowed, And explained his wicked past:
"That's what I very gladly would have done, Dear patriots, but he has never run." --Apperton Duke” |  Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914)
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| “The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.” | David Hume quotes (Scottish Philosopher, Historian, Economist and Essayist. 1711-1776) | | | Add to Chapter... | |
| “We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!” | Elizabeth Barrett Browning quotes (English poet, political thinker, and feminist 1806-1861) | | | Add to Chapter... | |
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