Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

United States
24 Jun 1842 // 1914
Editorialist/Journalist/Short-story writer/Satirist

Optimism is the doctrine by which everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong... it is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays