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Find important quotes and citations by the author Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce.
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Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husbandMore quotes on the topics: beauty power force charm admiration marriage
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportableQuote 1834
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.Quote 1052
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellowsMore quotes on the topics: success forgiveness people
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Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than anotherMore quotes on the topics: preference opinion homeland stranger
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at mathMore quotes on the topics: money people weakness stupidity chance
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.More quotes on the topics: decision worthlessness aims
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Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fightingQuote 485
Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his countryMore quotes on the topics: vote power homeland liberty decision
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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a dayMore quotes on the topics: revenge death penalty injustice age lifetime
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Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the lawQuote 384
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.Quote 378
Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.More quotes on the topics: diplomacy falsehood homeland patriotism
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Opposition: In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.More quotes on the topics: opposition prevention politics
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Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to beQuote 352
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.More quotes on the topics: world people performance
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Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspentQuote 337
Jealous: Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keepingQuote 320
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorderMore quotes on the topics: love disease marriage influence disorder
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estateQuote 271
Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocketMore quotes on the topics: body
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointmentsMore quotes on the topics: disappointment time sadness
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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth whileMore quotes on the topics: patience revenge worth meekness intentions
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Wedding: A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.More quotes on the topics: marriage unity commitment weakness
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Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in meQuote 108
A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical studentMore quotes on the topics: death experience learning
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Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is whiteQuote 92
Optimism: The doctrine or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrongMore quotes on the topics: optimism opinion changes confidence
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Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, twoMore quotes on the topics: marriage community common ground tasks
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Friendship: A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foulMore quotes on the topics: reliability superficiality support compassion