Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he cant find you.

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he cant find you. – Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war. – Ambrose Bierce

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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. – Ambrose Bierce

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Her face was her chaperone. – Rupert Hughes

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Calumny is only the noise of madmen. – Diogenes

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It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking. – Epictetus

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Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised. – Proverb

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