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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Austere Business Gambling Known Looks

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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Disguised Form Minor Patience Virtue

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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Himself Interested Me More Person Than

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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Chain Debt Ingenious Substitute Whip

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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Distinguishing Ignorance Kind Learning Studious

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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Agreeable Another Arising Contemplating Happiness Misery Sensation

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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Imagination Liberty Most Possessions Precious

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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: About Body Made Man Occupying Ocean Two-Thirds Water Who World

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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Adjective Affected Degree High Independence Intellectual Mad

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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.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Adjective Digest Eat Good Man Pig Snake Toad Wholesome Worm

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 24th, 1842

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