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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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More quotes by Ambrose Bierce
Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.
Ambrose Bierce
Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.
Ambrose Bierce
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
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Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.
Ambrose Bierce
You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
Ambrose Bierce
Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
Ambrose Bierce
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .
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ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
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Congratulations is the civility of envy.
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Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future Age knows her as the Dream.
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IGNORAMUS, n. 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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MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.
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Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.
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HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
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REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
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