Ambrose Bierce
was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satiristMythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.More Ambrose Bierce quotes [12/29/2011 12:12:54]
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.More Ambrose Bierce quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.More Ambrose Bierce quotes [07/07/2011 08:07:21]
critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.More Ambrose Bierce quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.More Ambrose Bierce quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
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