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Ambrose Bierce Quotes(https://friendstamilchat.in/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F5%2F57%2FAbierce.jpg%2F200px-Abierce.jpg&hash=3cf5ae45b85a87dc8a21b325568d4351670dac35)
An American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – after December 26, 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and his satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. The sardonic view of human nature that informed his work — along with his vehemence as a critic, with his motto "nothing matters" — earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce." Here are some famous quotes by Ambrose Bierce.
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The echo of a platitude.
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That sovereign of insufferables.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
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Day n. A period of twenty-four hours mostly misspent.
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Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Apologize v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
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To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.
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Women and foxes being weak are distinguished by superior tact.
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Learning n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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Achievement: The death of an endeavor and the birth of disgust.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Mad adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.
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PRESIDENCY n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
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Admiration. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves.
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All are lunatics but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Perseverance n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
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Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying 2/3 of a world made for man...who has no gills.
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Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
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Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
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A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.
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Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
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Heathen n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
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Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
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Education n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Infidel n: in New York one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople one who does.
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Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels levers and springs and believes it civilization.
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Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be.
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Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two.
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A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Academe n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy n.: A modern school where football is taught.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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Telephone n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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Conservative n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbour.
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History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.
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History is an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.
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Wedding: a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one one undertakes to become nothing and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
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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.
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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
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Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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PRESIDENT n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom — and of whom only — it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves we are beautiful; in self-ignorance we are ugly.
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I think that a young state like a young virgin should modestly stay at home and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich will in time be a great fortune and where she has a favorable predisposition it seems to me well worth cultivating.