Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
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- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume08 (1911), Epigrams
Epigrams section, complete prose paragraph 192; original publication1911
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- attributed · historical anthology
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- c. 1842 AD · industrial
recorded author birth year1842; not quotation composition date; death year uncertain; not composition date. - Rights & edition
- Public domain (United States)
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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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