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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: American Geography God Teaching War Way

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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Beautiful Deadly English Essential Example Identity Italian Lady Poison Striking Tongues Two

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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Beating Chance Comfortable Conviction Enjoy Game He Ingenious Insurance Keeps Man Modern Permitted Player Table Which Who

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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Believed Doubt Doubted Half Her Never Shadow Truth Truth Is Where Who

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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Disappointment Dividing Domain Eternity Hope Part Present Realm

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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Arrange Classify Give Ignorance Knowledge Name Part Small Small Part

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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Achieves Lowly Mediocrity Perseverance Success Virtue Whereby

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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: About Cabbage Familiar Head Large Man Vegetable Wise

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There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Four Homicide Kinds

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Ambition Dead Desire Enemies Friends Living Made Ridiculous Vilified While

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 24th, 1842

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