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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: About Betrayed Fidelity Peculiar Those Virtue Who

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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Arrested Days Fact Festival God Having Made Origin Sabbath Seventh Six Six Days Weekly World

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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Applications Connection Doses Enthusiasm Experience Outward Repentance Small Youth

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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: American Cookery His Humorist Intellectual Leaving Out Salt Spoils Which Wit

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: About Afterwards Begins Heaven Infancy Lies Lying Our Pretty Soon Us World

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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Adjustment Adversary Compromise Conflicting Deprived Due Each Except Gives Got He His Interests Justly Nothing Ought Satisfaction Thinking

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 24th, 1842

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