Ambrose Bierce quote about peace from The Devil's Dictionary - PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
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PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1906). copy citation

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Author Ambrose Bierce
Source The Devil's Dictionary
Topic peace cheating
Date 1906
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972-h/972-h.htm

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In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
O, what's the loud uproar assailing Mine ears without cease? 'Tis the voice of the hopeful, all-hailing The horrors of peace. Ah, Peace Universal; they woo it— Would marry it, too. If only they knew how to do it 'Twere easy to do.” source

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