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Ambrose Bierce

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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.


— Ambrose Bierce


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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.


— Ambrose Bierce


#country #democrat #democrats #republican #republicans

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.


— Ambrose Bierce


#discloses #disguises #foolish #lack #their

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.


— Ambrose Bierce


#many #nothing #nowhere #philosophy #roads

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.


— Ambrose Bierce


#explaining #fear #hope #ignorance #nature

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.


— Ambrose Bierce


#emergency #his #legs #perilous #thinks

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.


— Ambrose Bierce


#anoint #grease #great #king #other

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.


— Ambrose Bierce


#evidence #faith #knowledge #parallel #speaks

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.


— Ambrose Bierce


#about #concerned #jealous #keeping #lost

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


— Ambrose Bierce


#go #into #litigation #machine #out






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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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