Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Ambrose Bierce

Mots clés life money fun



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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

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Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.

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Mots clés writing language



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ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

A striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself, whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.

Ambrose Bierce

Mots clés thought abnormal independant bierce detested



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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

Ambrose Bierce

Mots clés disobedience ambrose silver-lining bierce



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Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce

Mots clés humor fear nature hope ignorance daughter



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The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.

Ambrose Bierce

Mots clés lies bluffing



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Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

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Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

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This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.

Ambrose Bierce

Mots clés memory amnesia



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