quote · Words worth keeping
Apologize v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.
Apologize v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Ambrose Bierce
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 1842 AD · industrial
documented author birth year (1842); not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
Author of the satirical prose epigrams in volume08 of his Collected Works, originally published1911. The Gutenberg catalogue records1842–1914?; the uncertain death year is left unspecified. These historical epigrams include irony and dated viewpoints.
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