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• In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
• BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think.
  That which distinguishes the man who is content to _be_ something from the man who wishes to _do_ something....
• CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• AFRICAN, n. A nigger that votes our way. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...