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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

American - Journalist | June 24, 1842 - 1914

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Power Woman Seeing Person Invisible

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Weather Kind Instrument Ingenious

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Patriotism Name Ready Torch Rubbish

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Dog World Kind Worship Catch Deity

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

Man Game Chance Insurance Enjoy Who

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Quality Woman Soul Mind Curiosity

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Success Sin Success Is Against Our

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Education Wise Understanding Foolish

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

Man Opinion Choice Vote Duty Right

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy Politeness Most Acceptable

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Hope Disappointment Present Eternity

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

People Road Know Run Over Middle

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