Do you think, in this age of alternative facts, that this is a good slogan for a department store?
Ambrose Bierce says a story is a narrative, commonly untrue.
And here’s some more Ambrose that seems to suit our times:
Truth: an ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
Faith: belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge…
Impunity: wealth
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
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A man of few words.
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I too turn to Bierce
For epigrams terse
When things get worse
*All I could remember of a response I thought I’d posted but clearly hadn’t
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How appropriate, sayings that come from The Devil’s Dictionary. Are there any expletives ?
Leslie
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He does define to curse as “energetically to belabour with a verbal slap-stick.”
Nice?
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Interesting turn of phrase. Not how I’d put it…
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I still can’t see what was in their minds.
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I join you on that one.
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