Ambrose Bierce Quotes
AMBITION, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. 
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BASTINADO, n. The act of walking on wood without exertion.
- Ambrose Bierce
PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black.
- Ambrose Bierce