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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Ambrose Bierce |
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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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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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Doubt
Confidence
Failure
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PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.
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Wealth
Sarcasm
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History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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History
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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Humor
Belief
Faith
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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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Humor
Language
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
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Humor
Success
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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Humor
Politics
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Humor
Politics
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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Humor
Learning
Ignorance
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When you doubt, abstain.
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Wisdom
Doubt
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Humor
Wealth
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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
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War
Patriotism
Nation
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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Humor
Art
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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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Humor
Politics
Politicians
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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
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Art
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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
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Motivational
Freedom
Imagination
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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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Humor
Optimism
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Cynicism
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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Humor
Hypocrisy
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Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Education
Knowledge
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