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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

American - Journalist | June 24, 1842 - 1914

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Business Gambling Looks Known

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Best Medical Situation Physician

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Madness Fiery Rum Produce Total

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Taste Domination Similarity Matrimony

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Men Believe Doubt Become Willingness

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Perseverance Success Mediocrity Lowly

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

Kinds Homicide Four Praiseworthy

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Book Dust Out Empty Skull Erudition

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Legs Emergency Coward Who Thinks

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Knowledge Ignorance Small Name Give

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Divorce Boundaries Diplomatic

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Good Man Snake Pig Eat Wholesome

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