1,237 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

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    Book – Learning : The dunce’s derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

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    Homo Creator’s testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

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    UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one’s own wife.

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    APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. “The Mad Philosopher,” 1697.

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    Age – That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

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    MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

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    MAMMON, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

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    Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.

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