The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. – Ambrose Bierce
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of ones voice. – Ambrose Bierce

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. – Ambrose Bierce
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of ones voice. – Ambrose Bierce
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. – Ambrose Bierce
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. – Ambrose Bierce
It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead. – E.M. Forster, Abinger Harvest