Ambrose bierce beauty in women
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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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RAZOR, n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mongolian to make a guy of himself, and by the Afro-American to affirm his worth.
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ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.
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MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.
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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
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A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination.
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Incompatibility: In matrimony, a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
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Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Praying is to ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
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Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.
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The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
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Valor is a soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.
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A bride is a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
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While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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A revolution, in politics, is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. The substitution of the rule of an administration for that of a ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.
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Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas jet and give more light than a horse.
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And abstainer is a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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The plague today...is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
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