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![PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] reading character in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word dupe Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/978/977212/977212.webp "PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] reading character in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word dupe Picture Quote #1")
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PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization. (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] reading character in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word dupe. (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, fate, fortune, luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)