Ambrose Bierce Quotes

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Full Name:Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce

Walk of life:American Writer

Born:June 24, 1842, Meigs County, OH

Death:Chihuahua, Mexico

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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Brain Science Thinking
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Death Edit Revision Sin
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Average Perseverance Success Virtue
Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Betrayal Character Cheating Virtue
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Law Oneself Skills
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.
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Convincing Doubt Enemy Man Person
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Blacksmith Cloth Kind Man
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Food Place Religion Service State
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Children Cold Compassionate Feeling Love Mom
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Age Head See Thinking Wisdom

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