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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

«Martyr: They stood before the altar and supplied - The fire themselves in which their fat was fried»
«Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.»
«Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion.»
«Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.»
«Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.»
«Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.»
«Once, adv.: Enough.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: adv
«Miss, n.: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.»
«Debauchee, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.»
«We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.»