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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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«To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.»
«Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
applications, curable, distemper, distempered, distempers, doses
«Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.»
«Brain, v. [as in 'to brain']: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.»
«HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.»
«Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
dispels, guesses, reporter, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
«A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abstainer, abstainers, abstains, abstention, abstentions, inactivity
«Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.»
«An egotist is a person of low taste-more interested in himself than in me.»
«FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.»
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