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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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  • Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.
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  • Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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  • Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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  • History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
    The Devil's Dictionary
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  • Husband: One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.
    The Devil's Dictionary
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  • I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
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  • I think I think, therefore, I think I am.
    Original: Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum
    Latin
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  • If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
    Epigrams (1911) p.353
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  • Ignoramus: A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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  • Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
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  • Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
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  • Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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  • In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
    The Devil's Dictionary
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  • In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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  • Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
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  • 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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  • Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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  • Insurrection: An unsuccessful revolution.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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  • Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
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  • Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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