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One Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
- Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
- Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
- What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would…
- Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of…
- Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
- Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
- To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
- Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
- Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
- Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
- Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
- A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
- Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
- Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
- Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
- Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
- Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
- I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's…
- Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition…
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