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Living Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
- YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a…
- WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
- RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the…
- ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
- INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the…
- ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
- PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an…
- Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease,…
- FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats…
- YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a…
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- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
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