Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ours…

Ambrose Bierce
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ✨ Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 13
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PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2012). The Devil's Dictionary, p.93, Courier Corporation
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce … ▶
RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2012). The Devil's Dictionary, p.10 … ▶
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2013). The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged, … ▶
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated), p.2230, … ▶

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