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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#compensation #conscience #debtors #forgetfulness #gift

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#behalf #laws #petitioner #pray #single

When you doubt, abstain. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#doubt #you

I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#realism #experience

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#homicide #justifiable #kinds #praiseworthy

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#another #our #ourselves #polite #recognition

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#brain #think #which

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#dawn #go #men #reason

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#catch #deity #designed #dog #kind

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#dracula #love #experience