Tag: Ambrose Bierce
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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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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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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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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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