Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Country Quotes, Character Quotes

The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

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A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

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EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!"

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plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

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The covers of this book are too far apart.

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Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

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Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.

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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

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

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Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.

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CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

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He laughs best who laughs least.

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PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

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Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

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The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

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RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

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