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REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

Ambrose Bierce
Failure, Rebel
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.194, University of Georgia Press

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Ambrose Bierce
Inspiring, Success, Failure

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

Ambrose Bierce
Failure, Inspired, Failing
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Ambrose Bierce
Failure, Destiny, Tyrants
Enlarged Devil's Dictionary (1967) p. 64

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

Ambrose Bierce
Success, Failure, Government
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2436, Delphi Classics

GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

Ambrose Bierce
Christian, Failure, Fusion
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.97, University of Georgia Press

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