Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Cheating

• Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Cheating, Powerful

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.152, 谷月社

• ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Cheating, Understanding, Oratory

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.170, e-artnow

• Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting

  Ambrose Bierce

  Cheating, Peace, Fighting

• We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Cheating, Art, Lying

  Ambrose Bierce (1909). “The Shadow on the Dial: And Other Essays”

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