Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
AMBROSE BIERCEBelladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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