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Ambrose Bierce

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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.


— Ambrose Bierce


#any #controversy #either #impartial #perceive

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.


— Ambrose Bierce


#chance #comfortable #conviction #enjoy #game

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.


— Ambrose Bierce


#great #principal #world

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.


— Ambrose Bierce


#come #go #into #lawsuit #machine

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.


— Ambrose Bierce


#distinguishing #ignorance #kind #learning #studious

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.


— Ambrose Bierce


#bones #give #his #hope #person

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.


— Ambrose Bierce


#any #combustible #his #illuminate #name

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.


— Ambrose Bierce


#opinion #prejudice #support #visible #without

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.


— Ambrose Bierce


#edited #revised #saint #sinner

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.


— Ambrose Bierce


#call #leaving #respond #spring #things






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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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