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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One of the most practical exponents of the Malthusian idea was Herod of Judea, though all the famous soldiers have been of the same way of thinking. - Ambrose Bierce

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PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read. - Ambrose Bierce

PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons. - Ambrose Bierce

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. - Ambrose Bierce

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