More quotes by Ambrose Bierce
When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
O proud philanthropist, your hope is vain
To get by giving what you lost by gain.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
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