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Ambrose Bierce

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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.


— Ambrose Bierce


#equal #left #pick #pocket #skill

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.


— Ambrose Bierce


#draft #drafts #house #money #plan

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.


— Ambrose Bierce


#distinguishes #knowledge #love #quality #without

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.


— Ambrose Bierce


#convenient #deity #drunk #excuse #getting

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.


— Ambrose Bierce


#having #indicates #ingenious #instrument #kind

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.


— Ambrose Bierce


#him #listen #person #talks #who

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.


— Ambrose Bierce


#cabbage #familiar #head #large #man

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.


— Ambrose Bierce


#fortune #good #good fortune #kinds #misfortunes

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.


— Ambrose Bierce


#entrusted #herself #secrets

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.


— Ambrose Bierce


#american #american politics #condition #country #failed






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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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