Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Success Quotes, Wall Quotes

WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

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REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

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An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.

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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

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CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

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CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.

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MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.

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Woman absent is woman dead.

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Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

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Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.

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Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

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Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

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diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

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