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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

«Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.»
«Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.»
«Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.»
«Think twice before you speak to a friend in need»
«Labor: one of the processes by which A acquires property of B»
«Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire»
«Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours»
«A man is known by the company he organizes»
«Pitted against hard drinking Christians the abstemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe»
«ABSENT, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another.To men a man is but a mind. Who cares What face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman. O, Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go, But heed the warning words the sage hath said: A woman absent is a woman dead. --Jogo Tyree»