Classic Quotes by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) U.S. writer
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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