| 108 Famous Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
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“Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.”
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“A bride is a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”
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“ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn."Eat arsenic? Yes, all you get," Consenting, he did speak up;"'Tis better you should eat it, pet, Than put it in my teacup." --Joel Huck”
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“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.”
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“Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.”
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“Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas”
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“FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.”
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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“Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.”
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“Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does”
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“LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.”
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“There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.”
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“OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.”
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“Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.”
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“Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego”
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“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.”
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“Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.”
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“Tariff: a scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer”
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“Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
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“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”
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“Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.”
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“Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.”
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“A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them." "The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something - the mortality of the optimist.”
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“ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.”
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“Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.”
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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