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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Ambrose Bierce
Inspirational, Money, Math

Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

Ambrose Bierce
Money, Blessing, Wealth
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.146, 谷月社

PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."

Ambrose Bierce
Money, Reading, Character

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

Ambrose Bierce
Funny, Money, Badass
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.17, University of Georgia Press

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

Ambrose Bierce
Money, Pockets, Kind
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.38, University of Georgia Press

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Ambrose Bierce
Sarcastic, Money, Business
Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.43, Sheba Blake Publishing

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

Ambrose Bierce
Money, Latin, Character
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.86, University of Georgia Press

QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.

Ambrose Bierce
Money, Numbers, Pockets
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.174, 谷月社

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