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作者：Ambrose Bierce  [全部名言]

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“Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  No category
“Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  No category
“Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  No category
“Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  Weather
“Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  Boredom
“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  Quotations
“Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  No category
“Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  No category
“Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  Brain
“To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  No category
“In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  No category
“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  No category
“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  Business
“Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  Art
“DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  No category
“DRAGOON, n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on horseback.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  No category
“DRAMATIST, n. One who adapts plays from the French.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  No category
“DUCK-BILL, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  No category
“ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  No category
“ECONOMY, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.”
— Ambrose Bierce  ·  No category
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