Genealogy, n. An account of one's descen... by Ambrose Bierce | We Heart Quotes

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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

- Ambrose Bierce

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Kitchen Man

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

- Ambrose Bierce

Civilization

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

- Ambrose Bierce

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

- Ambrose Bierce

Morality School

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

- Ambrose Bierce

Worth

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

- Ambrose Bierce

American

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

- Ambrose Bierce

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