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The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.

The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.
– Ambrose Bierce

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  2. ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith. – Ambrose Bierce
  3. Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. – Ambrose Bierce
  4. acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. – Ambrose Bierce
  5. diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one’s country. – Ambrose Bierce
  6. AMNESTY, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. – Ambrose Bierce
  7. POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce
  8. GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. – Ambrose Bierce
  9. You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. – Ambrose Bierce
  10. BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. – Ambrose Bierce
  11. History -“ An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce
  12. God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. – Ambrose Bierce
  13. Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity. – Ambrose Bierce
  14. Marriage, n.: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. – Ambrose Bierce
  15. Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke. – Ambrose Bierce
  16. Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live! – Ambrose Bierce
  17. So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter’s field I shall soon have both. What wealth! – Ambrose Bierce
  18. Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce
  19. Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce
  20. In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent – Ambrose Bierce
  21. A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. – Ambrose Bierce
  22. Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence. – Ambrose Bierce
  23. A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination. – Anna Godbersen
  24. Memories fall like snowflakes upon my dreams. The snowflakes toss and tumble, each different and yet the same. – Lisa Schroeder
  25. Rain. Tumble, bumble and, fall on me. Any old day, any old way. Come for a visit, or come for a stay. Rain, rain, don’t go away. – Carew Papritz
  26. Let my heart fall into your life. Let my heart fall into your hand. Let it fall, let it fall – my heart to your heart. – Kristian Goldmund Aumann
  27. Innards came out crossed and complex, like a tumble of plus and minus signs–the equation of human life. – MP Johnson
  28. Focus on giants – you stumble.Focus on God – Giants tumble. – Max Lucado
  29. He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own gl???, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. – William Shakespeare
  30. A man can own a woman, and a man can own a knife, but no man can own both, – George RR Martin
  31. One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them. – Alan Bennett
  32. Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world. – Sergei Lukyanenko
  33. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher
  34. An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  35. Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  36. woMAN-ipulate or IMAGE-innateDid GOD create MAN in his own image? ORDid MAN create GOD in his own image? – Kamil Ali
  37. I do not think that a man’s rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall. – Isaac Deutscher
  38. A man’s Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house. – William James
  39. The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family. – Ellen J Barrier
  40. The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is a great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family. – Ellen J Barrier

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