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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
– Ambrose Bierce

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  3. The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. – Ambrose Bierce
  4. Worn old shoes need a good cobbler to be repaired; but worn old thoughts, only a rubbish bin! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  5. 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
  6. acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. – Ambrose Bierce
  7. diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one’s country. – Ambrose Bierce
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  9. POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce
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  11. 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
  12. 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
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  14. God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. – Ambrose Bierce
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  16. Marriage, n.: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. – Ambrose Bierce
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  21. Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce
  22. In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent – Ambrose Bierce
  23. A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. – Ambrose Bierce
  24. Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence. – Ambrose Bierce
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  26. The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. – HL Mencken
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  31. I would never dream of killing an excellent tailor, not even to keep a secret that could endanger my life. – Charlie Huston
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  34. Knowing this was the same man from last night now clad again in his hunky knightly armor was a strange aphrodisiac. Yeah, a hot look, no denying. – Angela Quarles
  35. Clothing doesn’t really change a man. But it changes how others react to him. – Brandon Sanderson
  36. Meeting a vampire is kind of like a celebrity sighting, but where the celebrity possibly wants to kill you. – Adrianne Ambrose
  37. Don’t trust people whose feelings change with time… Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes. – Ziad K Abdelnour
  38. Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places. – Tana French
  39. Forgive those whose actions are the outcome of their personality, and forget those whose personalities are the outcome of their actions. – MF Moonzajer
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