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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.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Optimism
| Keywords:
doctrine, especially, Everything is Beautiful, fortunately, hereditary, including, optimism, ugly
«There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Murder
| Keywords:
excusable, felonious, homicide, homicides, justifiable, kinds, praiseworthy
«Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
affecting, disorder, fishing, functionaries, functionary, public works
«The covers of this book are too far apart.»
«What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
democrat, Democrats, Republican, Republicans, ruin, ruined, the country
«PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
prejudice, support, vagrant, vagrants, visible
«PRESENT, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
disappointment, dividing, domain, domains, eternity, realm
«The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Affection,
Animals,
Dogs
| Keywords:
affectionate, creature, wet, wets, wetted, wetter, wetting
«The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Future
| Keywords:
affairs, assured, period, period of time, prosper, prospers
«Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Absence
| Keywords:
absent, absents, blots, blotting
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