Good morning, it’s Friday, June 25, 2021, the day of the week when I reprise quotations intended to be uplifting or educational. As I promised Thursday, today’s comes from Ambrose Bierce, an Indiana abolitionist, Civil War veteran, San Francisco newspaperman, satirist, short story writer, world traveler, and war correspondent.
The man was also something of a misanthrope, one who was miscast chronologically, as it were. By that, I mean that Bierce seems to have born a century-and-a-half too early. His observational powers gravitated more easily to the stupidity of mankind, let’s say, than the…
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