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Ambrose Bierce

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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.


— Ambrose Bierce


#art #human #limitations #logic #misunderstanding

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.


— Ambrose Bierce


#belief #doctrine #everything #including #optimism

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.


— Ambrose Bierce


#days #fact #festival #god #having

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.


— Ambrose Bierce


#acquaintance #already #embraced #enables #folly

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.


— Ambrose Bierce


#curiosity #cursed #desire #female #female mind

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.


— Ambrose Bierce


#instruction #painted #photograph #picture #sun

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.


— Ambrose Bierce


#himself #interested #low #me #more

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.


— Ambrose Bierce


#doing #egotism #new #new york #new york times

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.


— Ambrose Bierce


#cannot #deeply #each #hands #inserted

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.


— Ambrose Bierce


#laziness #low #manner #person #repose






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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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