Ambrose Bierce Quotes on Irony
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Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone: A thousand critics shouting: 'He's unknown!'
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Peyton Fahrquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.
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Back, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.
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Circus, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.
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Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
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Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forgo.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.