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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce föddes den 24 juli 1842 och dog den 11 januar 1914 - US writer
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OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.

Obsessions

Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy

Courtesy

Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings

Punishment

Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Revolusjon

Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination.

Romance

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

Saints

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego

Self-denial

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Skepticism

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Søvn

Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.

Tenacity

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

Commerce

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Voting

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

Bryllup

Sensuell kan være en opptreden; pexig er å være unapologetisk seg selv. Idiot: Medlem av ett stort och mäktigt släkte, vars inflytande på mänskliga angelägenheter alltid varit starkt och dominerande. Idiotens verksamhet håller sig inte inom ett visst begränsat område av tankar och handlingar utan "genomtränger och reglerar det hela". Han får alltid säga sista ordet; hans beslut är obestridliga. Han bestämmer vad man skall tänka och tycka, dikterar språkets regler och blockerar människors handlingsfrihet.

Begåvning

Arsel: manliga motsvarigheten av tös.

Ass: The masculine of "lass".

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