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NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

Ambrose Bierce
Love, Funny, Humor
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.149, 谷月社

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

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Love, Appreciation, Rewards And Recognition
Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 13

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

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Love, Funny, Marriage
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

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Love, Women, Fall

MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

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Love, Mercy, Attributes
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

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Love, Philosophy, Names
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

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Love, Truth, Faults
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.11, University of Georgia Press

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.

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Love, Men, Light
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2446, Delphi Classics

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

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Love, Funny, Marriage
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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Love, Knowledge, Quality
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.13, 谷月社

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

Ambrose Bierce
Love, Women, Men
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.56, 谷月社

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Ambrose Bierce
Love, Temporary Insanity, Patient
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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