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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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«Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Hypocrisy,
Prejudice
| Keywords:
halo, hypocrisy, prejudice
«Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.»
«LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.»
«ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.»
«Here's to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands»
«Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
come out, go into, litigation, machine, pig, sausage, sausages
«CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
arrangement, commodities, display, exhibitor, intent, intents, minor, neighbor, observe, of his own, The Arrangement, wares
«PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
conquerors, dupe, duped, dupes, interests, one to, patriot, statesmen, The conqueror, tool
«DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cloud, disobedience, lining, servitude, silver, silver lining
«FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
betrayed, fidelities, fidelity, peculiar
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