Tag: Ambrose Bierce
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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An egotist is a person of low taste – more interested in himself than in me.
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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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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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