Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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Cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be
Coward is the one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs
Consult is to seek approval for a course of action already decided upon
Childhood is the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others
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
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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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