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Ambrose Bierce

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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age

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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age

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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anger

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

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art

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

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art

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

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art

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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art

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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attitude

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

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beauty

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

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best

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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best

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

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best

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

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business

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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business

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

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change

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

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change

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

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death

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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education

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

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education

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

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experience

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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experience

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

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experience

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

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failure

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

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failure

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

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faith

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

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famous

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

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fear

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

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future

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

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future

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

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god

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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god

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

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god

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

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good

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

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good

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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good

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

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.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

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.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

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.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

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