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Quotes By author - Starting with A - Ambrose Bierce
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There are 139 quotes for the author Ambrose Bierce
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Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
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Optimism
Sarcasm
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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
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Wisdom
Acceptance
Victory
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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Wisdom
Humor
Fate & Destiny
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Appearance & Attitudes
Humor
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Business
Sarcasm
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Humor
Admire
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Humor
Sarcasm
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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Happiness
Humor
Marriage
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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Experience
Age
Youth
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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
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Charity
Giving
Generosity
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JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
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Jealousy
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beauty
Courage
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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Wisdom
War
History
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Humor
Capitalism
Economy
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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Jealousy
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YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Time
Sarcasm
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
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Truth
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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
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Politics
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
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Humor
Politics
Revolution
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Government
Intelligence
America
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