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Quote by Ambrose Bierce

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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and...

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and...

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public...

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public...

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following...

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following...

CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was...

CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was...

(Love) A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

(Love) A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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...

Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they...

Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they...

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the...

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the...

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...

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which...

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which...

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should...

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should...

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.