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A Cynic Looks at Life
Ambrose Bierce
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Civilization, Immortality, the Death Penalty, these are just a few of the essays enclosed in this collection, A Cynic Looks At Life. Written by Ambrose Bierce, these essays continue to be thought provoking, offering a valid outlook on life.
Civilization, Immortality, the Death Penalty, these are just a few of the essays enclosed in this collection, A Cynic Looks At Life. Written by Ambrose Bierce, these essays continue to be thought provoking, offering a valid outlook on life.
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What! you unappeasable rich, coining the sweat and blood of your workmen into drachmas, understanding the law of supply and demand as mandatory and justifying your cruel greed by the senseless dictum that "business is business"; you lazy workmen, railing at the capitalist by whose desertion, when you have fr. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Got loads of interesting facts! Makes me pause, reflect and mumble "dimmit! It's true!"
Bierce was a tower on the intellectual landscape a hundred years ago, and this collection of essays suggests both why that was the case then and why he has little standing today. A quote like: "To fatten pigs, confine and feed them; to fatten rogues, cultivate a generous disposition," captures the e
makes you think about things you never think about, yes it's brilliant
The witticisms just don't measure up to Bierce's other work. Here, his bitterness is completely unleavened by wisdom; time has not favored what could have been an observation of life.
There is wisdom in these pages. There is also nonsense. It is up to the reader to determine which is which.
I read this as part of Classic American Literature: 13 books by Bierce in a single file, improved 1/7/2011 [Kindle Edition]