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9076 quotesA coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Coward and Cowardice
Ambrose Bierce
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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
Perseverance
Ambrose Bierce
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A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
Prejudice
Ambrose Bierce
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A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Love
Ambrose Bierce
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Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
Crime and Criminals
Ambrose Bierce
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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Absurdity
Ambrose Bierce
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Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Praise
Ambrose Bierce
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An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
Misfortunes
Ambrose Bierce
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An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
Optimism
Ambrose Bierce
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
Architecture
Ambrose Bierce
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Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
Slander
Ambrose Bierce
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Bride. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Weddings
Ambrose Bierce
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Calamity
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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Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Nuns
Ambrose Bierce
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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Business
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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Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Destiny
Ambrose Bierce
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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
Business
Ambrose Bierce
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Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Duty
Ambrose Bierce
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Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Scholars and Scholarship
Ambrose Bierce
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Fidelity. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Fidelity
Ambrose Bierce
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Habit is a shackle for the free.
Habit
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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Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.
Atheism
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