Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
AMBROSE BIERCE
AMBROSE BIERCE
Ambrose Bierce on betrayal
Ambrose Bierce108 quotes“Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”
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Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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