Famous Quotes / Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce: "READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.
We know by one's reading
His learning and breeding;
By what draws his laughter
We know his Hereafter.
Read nothing, laugh never --
The Sphinx was less clever!
Jupiter Muke"
Body | Breeding | Clever | Consists |
Country | Dialect | Draws | General |
Hereafter | Humor | Indiana | Jupiter |
Laugh | Laughter | Learning | Muke |
Nothing | Novels | Ones | Read |
Reading | Reads | Rule | Short |
Slang | Sphinx | Stories |