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Ambrose Bierce quotes (15) Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. Ambrose Bierce Category: Anger Academy: A modern school where football is taught. Ambrose Bierce Category: School Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels levers and springs and believes it civilization. Ambrose Bierce Category: Invention Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce Category: Profit Telephone n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. Ambrose Bierce Category: Telephone Learning n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. Ambrose Bierce Category: Learn The covers of this book are too far apart. Ambrose Bierce Category: Book Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Ambrose Bierce Category: Photography The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce Category: Business All are lunatics but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. Ambrose Bierce Category: Delusion There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious excusable justifiable and praiseworthy. Ambrose Bierce Category: Unsorted Pray v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. Ambrose Bierce Category: Religion Painting n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Ambrose Bierce Category: Art Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. Ambrose Bierce Category: Conceit Education n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Ambrose Bierce Category: Disguise |
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