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Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Soul

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1216, Delphi Classics

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.192, 谷月社

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.601, Library of America

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.9, 谷月社

MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.167, University of Georgia Press