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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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  • Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.
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  • It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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  • Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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  • Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
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  • Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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  • Liberty: One of imagination's most precious possessions.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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  • Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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  • Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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  • Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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  • Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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  • Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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  • Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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  • Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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  • Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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  • Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
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  • Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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  • Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
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  • Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
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  • Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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  • Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
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