Quotes about Ambrose Bierce

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as...

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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to...

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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself...

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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of...

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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

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There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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The covers of this book are too far apart.

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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them...

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

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