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Ambrose Bierce on Valentine's Day

1842–1910 United States

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Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

The Cynic's Dictionary (1906)

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage...

Neighbor, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, as a domestic horse to the hitching-post, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination -- free, lawless, immune to bit and rein.

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ambrose Bierce (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.