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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#adversary #compromise #conflicting #deprived #due

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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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

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#glory #once #worth

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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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

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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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