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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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  • Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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  • Bride. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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  • Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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  • Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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  • Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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  • Cannon: An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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  • Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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  • Christian: One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
    The Devil's Dictionary
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  • Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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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.
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  • Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
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  • Congratulation: The civility of envy.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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  • Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
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  • Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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  • Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.
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  • Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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  • Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
    Epigrams (1911) p.367
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  • Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
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  • Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
    The Devil's Dictionary
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  • Coward: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
    The Devil's Dictionary
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