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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.
• 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...
• Out of the same substances one stomach will extract nourishment, another poiso
  and so the same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, and embitter another's....
• I really would not be so bothered by people who speak out what they think, if before they spoke out, they actually did think.
  This is one of the main problems with a democracy....
• Wisdom is rarely found on the best-seller list.