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Peace. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Pace | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Happiness is an angel with a serious face.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Happiness | Clicks: 251 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Succes | Clicks: 252 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Politics | Clicks: 243 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Religion | Clicks: 253 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Politics | Clicks: 245 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Photography | Clicks: 253 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Filosophy | Clicks: 258 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Homeland | Clicks: 259 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Patience | Clicks: 261 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Man | Clicks: 247 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Marriage the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Marriage | Clicks: 253 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Love a temporary insanity curable by marriage

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Love | Clicks: 309 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Life a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Life | Clicks: 252 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Liberty one of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Liberty | Clicks: 274 | Rank: 0 | Fav

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: History | Clicks: 256 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Historian a broad-gauge gossip.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: History | Clicks: 259 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Genius to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Genius | Clicks: 234 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Friendship | Clicks: 238 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Theme: Faith | Clicks: 275 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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