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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Brief author info: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) American journalist, short-story writer, poet.
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Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Here's to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
Noise, n: A stench in the ear ... the chief product and authenticating sound of civilization.
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
Fiddle, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.
The covers of this book are too far apart.
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Beauty, n. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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