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“Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.”
— Ambrose Bierce
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