Ambrose Bierce

Tariff: a scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer

Tariff: a scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer

Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.

Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.

Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished read more

Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.