Quotes - Ambrose Bierce


 


Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.


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Man: An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

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Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.

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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.


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Opposition: In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

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Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

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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.

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