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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

«CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer)

«CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer)

«DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer)

«BEHAVIOR, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer)

«INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer)

«KNOWLEDGE, n. -- The small body of ignorance that we arrange and classify.»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer)

«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.»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer)

«GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer)

«HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer)

«FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer)