Quotes by Bierce, Ambrose

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Quotations about Compromise

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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Bierce, Ambrose