Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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Bride is a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her
Brain is an apparatus with which we think we think
Beauty is the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband
Battle is a method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue
Admiration is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves
Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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