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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.»
«New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves»
«DEAD, adj.Done with the work of breathing; done With all the world; the mad race run Though to the end; the golden goal Attained and found to be a hole! --Squatol Johnes»
«REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
American Army, exposed, nearest, rear
«PREDICAMENT, n. The wage of consistency.»
«Perfection is an imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Excellence,
Perfection
| Keywords:
attribute, distinguished, imaginary, known as, The Critic
«A penny saved is a penny to squander.»
«Birth: The first and direst of all disasters»
«PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.»
«Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.»
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