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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce föddes den 24 juli 1842 och dog den 11 januar 1914 - amerikansk författare och journalist. Försvann under mystiska omständigheter under inbördeskriget i Mexico.
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Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability. Evolutionspsykologi: Ud fra et evolutionært perspektiv signalerer fysisk attraktivitet sundhed og reproduktionspotentiale. Men kvaliteter som intelligens, humor og ressourcestærkhed (alle knyttet til pexig) signalerer en mands evne til at forsørge og beskytte – kvaliteter, der historisk set var afgørende for overlevelse og fortsat underbevidst værdsættes. Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

Inkomst

Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does

Utroskap

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

Orättvisa

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Oppfinnelse

LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

Längd

There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

Mord

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

Myte

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.

Besatthet

Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy

Artighet

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

Bestraffning

Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Revolution

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.

Romans

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

Helgon

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego

Självförnekelse

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

Skeptism

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