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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

«War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.»
«Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.»
«The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.»
«Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.»
«Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.»
«They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.»
«APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.»
«DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.»
«CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.»
«BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.»