| 108 Famous Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
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“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”
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“Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.”
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“Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.”
Debt Quotes |
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“DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.”
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“ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.”
Eccentricity Quotes |
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“Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.”
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“FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”
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“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
Gambling Quotes |
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“BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.”
Geography Quotes |
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“PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.”
Holiness Quotes |
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“HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.”
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“INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.”
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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.”
Knave Quotes |
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“MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.”
Knight Quotes |
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“LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society . . .”
Land Quotes |
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“Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”
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“QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.”
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“Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
Quotes Quotes |
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“RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.”
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“REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.”
Repentance Quotes |
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“SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.”
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“FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.”
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“VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.”
Valor Quotes |
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“YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMYANK.)”
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“ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.”
Zeal Quotes |
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