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Ambrose Bierce quotes


Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.

 

Praying is to ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

 

JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

 

In Italian, a belladonna is a beautiful lady; in English, it's a deadly poison.

 

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

 

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

 

Incompatibility: In matrimony, a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

 

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

 

Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination.

 

Justice is a commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the state sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

 


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