• Home >
  • Primary Sources >
  • Fables & Fairytales >
  • Fantastic Fables >
  • Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Man with No Enemies

TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.

Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Current Events This Week: January 2023

African Americans by the Numbers

Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents

The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales

 

The Lion and the Rattlesnake The Alderman and the Raccoon The Man with No Enemies AN Inoffensive Person walking in a public place was assaulted by a Stranger with a Club, and severely beaten. When the Stranger with a Club was brought to trial, the complainant said to the Judge: “I do not know why I was assaulted; I have not an enemy in the world.” “That,” said the defendant, “is why I struck him.” “Let the prisoner be discharged,” said the Judge; “a man who has no enemies has no friends. The courts are not for such.” Contents The Lion and the Rattlesnake The Alderman and the Raccoon

.com/t/lit/fantastic-fables/33.html

Sources +

Our Common Sources

The Lion and the Rattlesnake The Alderman and the Raccoon

The Man with No Enemies AN Inoffensive Person walking in a public place was assaulted by a Stranger with a Club, and severely beaten. When the Stranger with a Club was brought to trial, the complainant said to the Judge: “I do not know why I was assaulted; I have not an enemy in the world.” “That,” said the defendant, “is why I struck him.” “Let the prisoner be discharged,” said the Judge; “a man who has no enemies has no friends. The courts are not for such.”

Contents The Lion and the Rattlesnake The Alderman and the Raccoon

The Man with No Enemies

AN Inoffensive Person walking in a public place was assaulted by a Stranger with a Club, and severely beaten.

When the Stranger with a Club was brought to trial, the complainant said to the Judge:

“I do not know why I was assaulted; I have not an enemy in the world.”

“That,” said the defendant, “is why I struck him.”

“Let the prisoner be discharged,” said the Judge; “a man who has no enemies has no friends. The courts are not for such.”

.com/t/lit/fantastic-fables/33.html

Sources +

Our Common Sources

Our Common Sources

Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Flying-Machine

  • Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Flying-Machine

TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.

Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Current Events This Week: January 2023

African Americans by the Numbers

Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents

The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales

TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.

Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Current Events This Week: January 2023

African Americans by the Numbers

Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents

The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales

  • Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses
  • Current Events This Week: January 2023
  • African Americans by the Numbers
  • Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
  • The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales