Ambrose Bierce Quotes

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
Ambrose Bierce

Care, Less, Knows

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
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Four, Kinds, Homicide

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Person, Enough, Whom

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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Act, Side, Bread

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Delusions, Lunatics, Analyze

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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State, Expensive, Punish

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
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Gossip, Historian

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
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Liberty, Precious

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Best, Situation, Patient

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
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Respect, Attitude, Call

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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Person, Himself, Interested

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
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Able, Left, Equal

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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Failure, Fool, Destiny

Edible - 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.
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Good, Eat, Snake

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Art, Making, Gift

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
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Learned, Soul, Genius

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
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Game, Enjoy, Chance

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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Opinion, Means, Support

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall, Hardest, Bluff

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
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Truth, Doubt, Her

A man is known by the company he organizes.
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Company, Known, Organizes

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Everything, Others, Total

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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Another, Move, Mysterious

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Made, Friends, Living

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 24, 1842

Died: 1914

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