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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

American writer

Lived from: 1842 - 1914

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 24 june 1842 Died: 1 january 1914

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  • Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
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  • Respectability: The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
    The Devil's Dictionary
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  • Revelation: A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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  • Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
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  • Road: A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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  • Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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  • Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited.
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  • Saint: A dead sinner, revised and edited.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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  • Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
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  • Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
    Epigrams (1911) p.358
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  • Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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  • Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
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  • Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
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  • Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
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  • Telephone. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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  • The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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  • The are and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
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  • The covers of this book are too far apart.
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  • The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
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  • The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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