PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. - Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce: "PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first."

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Ambitious	Combustible	Defined	Dictionary
Enlightened	Famous	Illuminate	Inferior
Johnsons	Last	Lexicographer	Name
Patriotism	Read	Resort	Respect
Rubbish	Scoundrel	Submit	Torch

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