The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted t…

Ambrose Bierce
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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist. ✨ Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Jerome Hopkins (1968). The Ambrose Bierce satanic reader: selections from the invective journalism of the great satirist
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RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2012). The Devil's Dictionary, p.110, Courier Corporation
GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student. ✨ The Devil's Dictionary
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.17, 谷月社
Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.106, 谷月社
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later. ✨ Ambrose Bi … ▶

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