Tag: Ambrose Bierce
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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Alien – an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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Sabbath – a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head.
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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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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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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
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