The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics …

Ambrose Bierce
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (1912). The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: Antepenultimata
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YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabrid … ▶
COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.38, University of Georgia Press
Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated), p.2355, Delphi Classics
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. ✨ Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 17
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (1912). The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: Antepenultimata

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