Ambrose Bierce edges out Samuel Johnson in double overtime by a final score of a hundred and forty-four to a hundred and ten.

NEWYORKER: Notable Quotables

It would seem likely that ascribing urgency to a demand for the work of Mr. Bierce, a 19th-century journalist, might be overstating it.

WSJ: The Historian's Stories

Nonetheless, that readers were agitating for a Bierce volume at all speaks, I suspect, to their generally high level of engagement and erudition.

WSJ: The Historian's Stories

With his lively writing and cynical humor, this author, a partner in a private equity firm, is a captivating tour guide to a Wall Street wonderland of greed, folly and deceit whose rules seem lifted from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.

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