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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

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Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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