Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
Ambrose BierceRETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.
Ambrose BierceNOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
Ambrose BierceAmbition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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