AMBROSE BIERCE –“Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.”
AMBROSE BIERCE –“International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one.”
AMBROSE BIERCE –“Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.”
AMBROSE BIERCE –“MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn… in western Europe political administration is mostly entrusted to his ministers, he being somewhat preoccupied with reflections relating to the status of his own head.”
AMBROSE BIERCE –“Mythology: The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later”
AMBROSE BIERCE –“Painting: the art of protecting flat surface from the weather and exposing them to the critic.”
AMBROSE BIERCE –“Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.”
AMBROSE BIERCE –“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret.”
AMBROSE BIERCE –“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling.”
AMBROSE BIERCE –“There is nothing new under the ^un but there are lots of old things
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