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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce est un écrivain et journaliste américain.

Il est essentiellement connu comme l'auteur du Dictionnaire du Diable et de nouvelles d'humour noir relevant fréquemment du genre fantastique, dont la plus célèbre est Ce qui se passa sur le pont de Owl Creek.

✵ 24. juin 1842 – 1914  •  Autres noms Ambrose Gwinett Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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“Religion : fille de l'espérance et de la peur; elle explique à l'ignorance la nature de l'inconnaissable.”

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Issue du Dictionnaire du diable

“Frontière : en géographie politique, ligne imaginaire entre deux nations, séparant les droits imaginaires de l'une des droits imaginaires de l'autre.”

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Issue du Dictionnaire du diable

“Abstinent : personne faible qui cède à la tentation de se refuser un plaisir.”

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“Présidence : le cochon le plus gras du champ de la politique.”

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“Patience : forme mineure de désespoir, déguisée en vertu.”

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“Tableaux : représentations en deux dimensions des choses inintéressantes en trois.”

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“Évangéliste : porteur de bonnes nouvelles, particulièrement (dans un sens religieux) de celles qui assurent notre propre salut et la damnation de nos voisins.”

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Issue du Dictionnaire du diable

“Immigrant : individu mal informé qui pense qu'un pays est meilleur qu'un autre.”

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“Politesse : forme la plus acceptable de l'hypocrisie.”

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“Raison : propension au préjugé.”

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“Irréfléchi : insensible à la valeur de votre conseil.”

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“Connaissance : c'est quelqu'un qu'on connaît assez pour lui emprunter de l'argent, mais pas assez pour lui en prêter”

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“Égoïste : une personne de mauvais goût, plus intéressée à elle-même qu'à moi.”

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“Bien-être : état d'esprit produit par la contemplation des ennuis d'autrui.”

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“Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.”

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Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

“Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.”

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The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

“Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.”

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Source: Epigrams, pp. 372-373

“Study Herod, madame, study Herod.”

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When asked about how to rear obnoxious children by an irritating interviewer. http://books.google.com/books?id=dUgPxKzVq9AC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=study+herod+madame+study+herod&source=bl&ots=_I14EG7TXF&sig=_iMbpV_AKe9HZ2U8L0Xi93jcAe8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vWl5VJvXLqy1sQSw74HADg&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=study%20herod%20madame%20study%20herod&f=false

“A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.”

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Source: Epigrams, p. 356

“Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.”

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Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

“Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense”

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The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

“Kilt, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.”

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The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

“True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.”

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Ambrose Bierce livre A Bivouac of the Dead

A Bivouac of the Dead, The New York American, November 22, 1903

“While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.”

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Source: Epigrams, p. 374

“Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.”

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Epigrams

“"There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust."
"There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must."”

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Source: Epigrams, p. 350

“Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.”

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Source: Epigrams, p. 369

“Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.”

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Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

“Pig, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.”

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The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

“Zeus, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names.”

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“White, adj. and n. Black.”

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“Hers, pron. His.”

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“Accord, n. Harmony.”

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“Once, adj. Enough.”

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“Christian, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.”

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“Forgetfulness, A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.”

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The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

“Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous”

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Ambrose Bierce livre The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

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