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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

«Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.»
«An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.»
«The plague today...is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.»
«Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.»
«Garter, n.: An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stockings and desolating the country.»
«Magpie, n.: A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.»
«Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.»
«Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: sauces
«AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.»
«Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.»