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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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  • Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
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  • Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
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  • Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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  • 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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  • Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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  • Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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  • Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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  • Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
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  • Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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  • Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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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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  • Fidelity. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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  • Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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  • Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
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  • Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
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  • Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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  • Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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  • Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
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  • Habit is a shackle for the free.
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  • Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
    The Devil's Dictionary
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