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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

«Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.»
«There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.»
«Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing»
«The covers of this book are too far apart.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: covers
«What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.»
«PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.»
«PRESENT, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.»
«The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog»
«The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.»
«Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.»

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