• 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.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer 1842-1914
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. satisfaction
2. adjustment
3. interests
4. adversary
5. thinking
6. deprived

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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. by : Ambrose Bierce

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