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applause, n. The echo of a platitude.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
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More quotes by Ambrose Bierce
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
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FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
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me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.
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Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.
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PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
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RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.
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An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
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A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
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A man is the sum of his ancestors to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.
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PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.
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COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.
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pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
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TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.
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