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“ ”GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.
About Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – date of death uncertain; probably late 1912 or early 1914) was an American satirist, critic, short story writer, editor and journalist. He is perhaps most famous for his serialized mock lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary, in which, over the years, he scathed American culture and accepted wisdom by pointing out alternate, more practical definitions for common words.
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Additional quotes by Ambrose Bierce
History does not forbid us to hope. But it forbids us to rely upon numbers; they will be against us. If history teaches anything worth learning it teaches that the majority of mankind is neither good nor wise. When government is founded upon the public conscience and the public intelligence the stability of states is a dream.
Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!
The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a controlling interest in the good writing.