Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a...

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FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to...

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REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he...

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RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

#Stupidity

Kindness is a brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

#Kindness

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of...

#Knowledge

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

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Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the...

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

#Opinions

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

#Death

OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything...

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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

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