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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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«COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adjustment, adjustments, adversary, compromise, conflicting, conflict of interest, deprived, deprived of, deprives, due, interests, justly, not due, satisfaction
«Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.»
«All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
analyze, analyzed, analyzes, delusion, lunatics, philosopher
«GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
account, ancestor, an account, descent, genealogies, genealogy, particularly, trace, tracing
«Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
blockhead, blockheads, clairvoyant, commonly, invisible, namely, n a, patron, patrons
«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.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Doubt
| Keywords:
arms, convinced, doubts, enlist, enlisted, first person, ranks
«Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.»
«PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one --the knowledge and the dream.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquaintance, ashes, beckon, beckoned, beckoning, beckons, bower, bowers, Bright Future, clad, continually, crouch, crouched, disappointment, divisions, efface, effaced, effaces, effacing, flies, fraction, fractions, Future of, grand, imaginary, known as, morrow, mumble, mumbled, mumbling, One The, realm, region, region of, regrettable, sackcloth, sackcloth and ashes, slight, sob, sobbed, sobbing, sobs, temples, The Dream, unlike, wing
«AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
amnesty, expensive, offenders, punish, The State
«LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.»
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