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Ambrose Bierce Quote - Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Brain Fear Idiot One Liner
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Coward Emergency Himself Legs Thinking
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Alarm Difficult Himself Thinking
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Delusion Experience Observation Reflection Save
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Myself Reputation Thinking
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Beautiful Death Essential Example Poison
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Advantage Election Good Stolen
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Blessing Exception Leaving Money
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Disguised Patience Virtue
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Disappointment Perspective Time
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Appearance Art Color Fools White
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Evil Existence Philosophy Replacement

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