Quotes By Ambrose Bierce
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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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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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
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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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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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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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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
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