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Ambrose Bierce

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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.


— Ambrose Bierce


#classify #give #ignorance #knowledge #name

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.


— Ambrose Bierce


#country #depends #every #existence #good

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.


— Ambrose Bierce


#american #cookery #his #humorist #intellectual

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.


— Ambrose Bierce


#clever #joke #noted #philistine #pleased

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.


— Ambrose Bierce


#him #man #speak #you

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.


— Ambrose Bierce


#affairs #assured #friends #future #our

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.


— Ambrose Bierce


#god #teaching #war #way

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.


— Ambrose Bierce


#curable #insanity #love #temporary

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.


— Ambrose Bierce


#corporation #device #individual #individual responsibility #ingenious

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.


— Ambrose Bierce


#advantage #affairs #conduct #contest #interests






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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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