Tag: Ambrose Bierce
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Irreligion – the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Abscond – to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
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