Tag: Ambrose Bierce
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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
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Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
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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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Impartial – unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
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Doubt is the father of invention.
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