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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

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When you have made a catalogue of your friend’s faults it is only fair to supply him with a duplicate, so that he may know yours  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can’t let go  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Amnesty, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one’s bread to determine which side it is buttered on  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Edible, adj.: 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 Quotes) Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Genealogy, n. An account of one’s descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) 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  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes) A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else  (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
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