Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings

Quote by Ambrose Bierce

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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress,...

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress,...

Doubt is the father of invention.

Doubt is the father of invention.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The...

Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The...

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are...

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are...

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in...

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in...

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty...

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty...

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his...

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his...

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly...

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly...

ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so...

ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so...

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not...

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not...

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making...

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making...

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having...

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having...

CONSUL, n. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure and office from...

CONSUL, n. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure and office from...

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if...

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if...

He was a power politically for years, but he never got prominent enough t'have his...

He was a power politically for years, but he never got prominent enough t'have his...