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Ambrose Bierce

Time
Historian. A broad - gauge gossip.
3.9 · 9 votes · 88 reads
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Society
Incompatibility: In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
4.7 · 16 votes · 43 reads
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Society
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.
3.6 · 34 votes · 72 reads
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Society
Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.
4.2 · 55 votes · 38 reads
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Virtues
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
3.3 · 21 votes · 182 reads
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Defects
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
4.0 · 34 votes · 15 reads
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Art and Culture
Learning: The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
3.2 · 32 votes · 123 reads
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Nature
Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
5.0 · 62 votes · 137 reads
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Feelings
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
4.5 · 33 votes · 11 reads
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Society
Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
4.3 · 15 votes · 26 reads
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Virtues
Optimism: The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
4.6 · 11 votes · 56 reads
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Virtues
Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
4.7 · 39 votes · 198 reads
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Society
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
3.8 · 5 votes · 63 reads
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Society
Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
4.7 · 52 votes · 179 reads
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Thought and Reason
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
3.8 · 50 votes · 44 reads
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Virtues
Politeness: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
4.3 · 56 votes · 9 reads
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Various
Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
4.5 · 24 votes · 126 reads
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Thought and Reason
Quotation: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
3.6 · 8 votes · 15 reads
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Society
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
4.0 · 52 votes · 71 reads
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Government and Politics
Revolution: An abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
4.2 · 27 votes · 19 reads
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Feelings
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
4.7 · 9 votes · 54 reads
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Society
Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
3.7 · 25 votes · 109 reads
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Art and Culture
The covers of this book are too far apart.
4.8 · 30 votes · 13 reads
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Various
The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
3.3 · 48 votes · 184 reads
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Society
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
4.0 · 38 votes · 198 reads
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Thought and Reason
Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
5.0 · 23 votes · 40 reads
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Virtues
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
4.3 · 17 votes · 64 reads
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Feelings
To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
3.5 · 48 votes · 56 reads
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Various
To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
3.3 · 30 votes · 186 reads
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Thought and Reason
Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
3.2 · 51 votes · 175 reads
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Government and Politics
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
3.0 · 54 votes · 39 reads
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Society
When in Rome, do as Rome does.
4.7 · 16 votes · 148 reads
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Virtues
Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
3.2 · 46 votes · 94 reads
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Virtues
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a ''joke.''
4.7 · 8 votes · 125 reads
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Various
Woman absent is woman dead.
3.9 · 6 votes · 2 reads
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