American - Journalist | June 24, 1842 - 1914
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
Ambrose Bierce
LoveWomenMenAshamedThanLess
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
CleverJokeCallSharpSeldomNoted
Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
YourDeityTowardIrreverence
Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
GossipHistorian
A man is known by the company he organizes.
ManCompanyKnownHe
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
DirectionProfitDesireDutyLine
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
SupportOpinionPrejudiceWithout
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
WisdomExperienceOldUsFolly
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
PoliticsPeopleAmericanPerson
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
GodGiftConscienceCompensation
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.
CompromiseThinkingSatisfactionGot
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