Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. ✨ Ambr…

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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (1973). The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce, Ayer Company Pub
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.238, University of Georgia Press
diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.47, 谷月社
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (1996). Poem … ▶
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.149, 谷月社
I was born to poor because of honest parents. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2015). Negligible Tales, p.23, Ambrose Bierce

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (1973). The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce, Ayer Company Pub

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