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Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, Dream, Names
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2691, Delphi Classics

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, Marriage, Wedding
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.48, e-artnow

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Ambrose Bierce
Friendship, Happiness, Future
Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 129

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, Smell, Noses
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2468, Delphi Classics

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Ambrose Bierce
Funny, Happiness, Happy
Ambrose Bierce (2000). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories”, p.26, Penguin

REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.

Ambrose Bierce
Change, Happiness, People
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.186, 谷月社

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