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Better Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
- Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough…
- Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
- PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not…
- CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
- PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
- CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
- RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For…
- DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.
- BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it…
- ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn. "Eat arsenic? Yes, all you get," Consenting, he…
- Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still…
- Example is better than following it.
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