Ambrose Bierce's Quote - The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. – Ambrose B

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The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose B

The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. – Ambrose Bierce

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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. – 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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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freemans power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. – Ambrose Bierce

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Good quotations, like good thoughts, are true wealth. – Annie E. Lancaster, quoted in Day’s Collacon: An Encyclopædia of Pros

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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer. – C.C. Colton, “Preface,” Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed To Those

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It’s such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them. – Rupert Hart-Davis

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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

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[An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the “William Tell Overture” without thinking of the Lone Ranger. – John Chesson

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If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn’t open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming. – Jack Handey

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I dont believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom. – Alan Dershowitz

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The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. – Henry Miller

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