Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
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REVOLUTION: In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.
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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
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A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.
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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
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A man is known by the company he organizes.
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A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
Source: Epigrams (1911) p.356 -
A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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