Ambrose Bierce Neighbor Quotations

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.

Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.

COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.