Tag: Ambrose Bierce
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
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Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Genealogy, n. An account of one’s descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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