What did Ambrose Bierce mean by: Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend. - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA Copy
+ Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Ignorance, Knowledge, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Consideration, Selfish, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Wise, Writing, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Disorder, Tongue, Wish, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Advantage, Faith, Hell, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Food, Wise, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Folly, Vices, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Forgiving, Indifference, Injury, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. - William Osler Physician · Canada
The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine. - William Osler Physician · Canada
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta. - William Osler Physician · Canada
It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization - Franz Boas Anthropologist · Germany
Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease–a genuine, absolute disease. - Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
