Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American author, journalist, and poet. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi speculates that he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produced, and in this regard can take his place with such figures as Juvenal, Swift, and Voltaire. His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway and others, and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic. In recent decades, Bierce has gained wider respect as a fabulist and poet.
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Lawsuit n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
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The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
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Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.