They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – Ambrose Bierce
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. – Ambrose Bierce

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – Ambrose Bierce
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. – Ambrose Bierce
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. – Ambrose Bierce
Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce