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Ambrose Bierce

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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.


— Ambrose Bierce


#day #hours #misspent #mostly #period

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


— Ambrose Bierce


#laziness #low #manner #person #repose

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.


— Ambrose Bierce


#himself #person #pleasure #temptation #weak

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.


— Ambrose Bierce


#absent #blots #friends #out #people

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

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.


— Ambrose Bierce


#critic #exposing #flat #painting #protecting

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.


— Ambrose Bierce


#belief #inconsistent #manifestly #opinion #own

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.


— Ambrose Bierce


#dead #fork #instrument #into #mouth

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.


— Ambrose Bierce


#impiety #irreverence #toward #your

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.


— Ambrose Bierce


#faulty #ought #sees #things #vision






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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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