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If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other.  If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear.  What one fears, one destroys.
   ―     Chief Dan George
Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.
    ―     George Bernard Shaw
Cannibal, n.  —  A gastronome of the old school who preserves the simple tastes and adheres to the natural diet of the pre-pork period.
    —     Ambrose Bierce
From his book: “The Devil’s Dictionary
[This post started with viewing a “Hannibal Lecter” video on YouTube:  he was thinking of having an old friend over for dinner…    —    kmab]
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One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
     —    Ambrose Bierce
From his book:  “The Devil’s Dictionary
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An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
     —    Ambrose Bierce
From his book:  “The Devil’s Dictionary
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To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
    —    Ambrose Bierce
From:  “The Devil’s Dictionary
Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be.
    —    Morris Adler
[For a prayer I used to say whenever I had a big decision looming, see:   The Para’s Prayer on my Poems page.  —  KMAB]
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A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
     —    Ambrose Bierce
From his book:  “The Devil’s Dictionary
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A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
     ––    Ambrose Bierce
From his book:  “The Devil’s Dictionary
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The time when men of reason go to bed.  Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh.  They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years;  the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them.  The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.
     ––    Ambrose Bierce
From his book:  “The Devil’s Dictionary
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A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
    —    Ambrose Bierce
From his book:  “The Devil’s Dictionary
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The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain – the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another.  This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A proof of B, makes B the proof of A.
    —    Ambrose Bierce
From his book:  “The Devil’s Dictionary
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Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
     ––    Ambrose Bierce
From his book:  “The Devil’s Dictionary
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That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
     –    Ambrose Bierce
From his book:  “The Devil’s Dictionary
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The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color it appears to be.  It includes the gift of making any other color appear white.
     ––    Ambrose Bierce
From:   “The Devil’s Dictionary
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The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep.
 
    ––    Ambrose Bierce
From:  “The Devil’s Dictionary
 
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The March fool with another month added to his folly.
    —   Ambrose Bierce
From:  “The Devil’s Dictionary
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One who in perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
    —    Ambrose Bierce
From his book:  “The Devil’s Dictionary
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