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Ambrose Bierce

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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.


— Ambrose Bierce


#liquors #madness #produce #rum #total

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.


— Ambrose Bierce


#against #fellows #our #sin #success is

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.


— Ambrose Bierce


#give #life #them #thing #things

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.


— Ambrose Bierce


#fall #hardest #his #make #man

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.


— Ambrose Bierce


#characters #designed #formal #inquiry #judges

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.


— Ambrose Bierce


#happens #know #middle #over #people

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.


— Ambrose Bierce


#doubt #doubted #half #her #never

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


— Ambrose Bierce


#commonly #consist #degree #found #high

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.


— Ambrose Bierce


#does #figurehead #part #talking #thinking

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.


— Ambrose Bierce


#american #his #sovereign #state






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Did you know about Ambrose Bierce?

His vehemence as a critic his motto "Nothing matters" and the sardonic view of human nature that informed his work all earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce". His style often embraces an abrupt beginning dark imagery vague. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (born June 24 1842; assumed to have died sometime after December 26 1913) was an American editorialist journalist short story writer fabulist and satirist.

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (born June 24 1842; assumed to have died sometime after December 26 1913) was an American editorialist journalist short story writer fabulist and satirist. Despite his reputation as a searing critic Bierce was known to encourage younger writers including poet George Sterling and fiction writer W. Bierce employed a distinctive style of writing especially in his stories.

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