Ambrose Bierce quote about self-evidence from The Devil's Dictionary - SELF-EVIDENT, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
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SELF-EVIDENT, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1906). copy citation

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

Context

“All souls of women were in that sack— A draft miraculous, precious! But ere he could throw it across his back They'd all escaped through the meshes.
Baruch de Loppis SELF-ESTEEM, n. An erroneous appraisement.
SELF-EVIDENT, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
SENATE, n. A body of elderly gentlemen charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.” source

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