Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCEDawn: When men of reason go to bed.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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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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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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