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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.»
«CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit»
«DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.»
«BEHAVIOR, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.»
«INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.»
«KNOWLEDGE, n. -- The small body of ignorance that we arrange and classify.»
«JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.»
«GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.»
«HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.»
«FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.»
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