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Ambrose Bierce

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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.


— Ambrose Bierce


#idleness #leisure #meditate #place #retirement

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.


— Ambrose Bierce


#creditor #dreaded #dwelling #financial #savages

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.


— Ambrose Bierce


#doubt #frontiers #last #only #possible

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.


— Ambrose Bierce


#connection #curable #doses #enthusiasm #experience

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.


— Ambrose Bierce


#dust #empty #erudition #into #out

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.


— Ambrose Bierce


#consideration #dead #either #eulogy #person

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.


— Ambrose Bierce


#care #descent #did #genealogy #his

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.


— Ambrose Bierce


#begins #heaven #infancy #lies #lying

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.


— Ambrose Bierce


#historian

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.


— Ambrose Bierce


#i #never #said #were






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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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