Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Page 15

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

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  Cheating, Peace, Fighting

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• PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

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  Failure, Inspired, Failing

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

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  Happiness, Smell, Noses

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2468, Delphi Classics

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• INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

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  Fool, Intimacy, Destruction

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.113, 谷月社

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• COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

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  Mind, Comfort, Neighbor

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

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  Political Revolution, Cynical, Democracy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.186, 谷月社

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• IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.

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  Death, Sitting, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.98, 谷月社

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• DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

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  Food, Paris, Cooking

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.606, Library of America

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• When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

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  Beautiful, Women, Devil

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2696, Delphi Classics

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• An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

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  Time, Truth, Philosophy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

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• plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

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  Priorities, Coincidence, Plagiarism

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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  Thinking, Giving, Satisfaction

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.39, University of Georgia Press

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• DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

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  Sarcastic, Clouds, Silver

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.58, University of Georgia Press

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• INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

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  Ingrates, Benefits, Charity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.130, University of Georgia Press

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• There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

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  Humorous, Profound, Insane

  Ambrose Bierce (1997). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce”, p.139, Рипол Классик

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• International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

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  Arbitration, Burning, May

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

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• NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

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  Wise, Buddhist, Religion

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.203, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

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  Failure, Destiny, Tyrants

  Enlarged Devil's Dictionary (1967) p. 64

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• Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

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  Kings, Grease, Slippery

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.12, 谷月社

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• alone, adj. In bad company.

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  Solitude, Bad Company, Company

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

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  Life, Simple, Temporary Insanity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

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  Business, Work, Competition

  Ambrose Bierce, Brian St. Pierre (1987). “The Devil's advocate: an Ambrose Bierce reader”, Chronicle Books (CA)

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• REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned . . . . whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.

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  Life, Understanding, Trying

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.194, University of Georgia Press

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• Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

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  Literature, World, Festivals

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.192, 谷月社

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• REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

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  Learning, Popular Vote, Law

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.195, University of Georgia Press

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