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7190 quotesAn optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
Optimism
Ambrose Bierce
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Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
Trials
Ambrose Bierce
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Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Beauty
Ambrose Bierce
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Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
Gossip
Ambrose Bierce
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Deliberation. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Deliberation
Ambrose Bierce
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Habit is a shackle for the free.
Habit
Ambrose Bierce
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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.
Happiness
Ambrose Bierce
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Childhood
Ambrose Bierce
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Marriage
Ambrose Bierce
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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
Life and Living
Ambrose Bierce
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
Law Suits
Ambrose Bierce
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Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Optimism
Ambrose Bierce
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Patriotism
Ambrose Bierce
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Politeness -- The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Politeness
Ambrose Bierce
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Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
Prophecy
Ambrose Bierce
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Religion
Ambrose Bierce
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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Ambrose Bierce
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Anger
Ambrose Bierce
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
Success
Ambrose Bierce
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
Critics and Criticism
Ambrose Bierce
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The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
Gambling
Ambrose Bierce
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The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
Congress
Ambrose Bierce
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To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Certainty
Ambrose Bierce
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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
Planning
Ambrose Bierce
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Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Wit
Ambrose Bierce
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun