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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«Friendship is a ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
fair weather, foul
«ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. --Romach Pute»
«Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
convulsion, convulsions, distortion, features, inarticulate, incurable, infectious, intermittent
«NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.»
«RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
conservatism, inject, injected, injecting, injects, radicalism
«Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Ability
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commonly, consist, higher degree, mainly, solemnities, solemnity, to a higher degree, to the highest degree
«ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adored, As god, considerable, deities, distinct, explorer, explorers, faiths, Grecian, insists, Jupiter, mob, monotheist, monumental, Natives, Native American, penetrated, professes, Romans, shores, stand for, surviving, the Romans, work on, Zeus
«Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.»
«I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.»
«When you doubt, abstain.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Doubt
| Keywords:
abstain, abstaining, abstains
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