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83 quotes (Page 2 of 4 pages)Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
Medicine
Ambrose Bierce
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Bigot, one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
Bigotry
Ambrose Bierce
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Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Bores and Boredom
Ambrose Bierce
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Bride. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Weddings
Ambrose Bierce
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Calamity
Ambrose Bierce
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Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
Gossip
Ambrose Bierce
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Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.
Advice
Ambrose Bierce
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Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Nuns
Ambrose Bierce
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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Business
Ambrose Bierce
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Deliberation. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Deliberation
Ambrose Bierce
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Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Destiny
Ambrose Bierce
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Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
Divorce
Ambrose Bierce
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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
Business
Ambrose Bierce
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Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Duty
Ambrose Bierce
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Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
Egotism
Ambrose Bierce
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Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Scholars and Scholarship
Ambrose Bierce
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Experience
Ambrose Bierce
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Fidelity. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Fidelity
Ambrose Bierce
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Habit is a shackle for the free.
Habit
Ambrose Bierce
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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.
Happiness
Ambrose Bierce
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Childhood
Ambrose Bierce
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Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.
History and Historians
Ambrose Bierce
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Irreverence
Ambrose Bierce
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Marriage
Ambrose Bierce
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Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.
Atheism
Ambrose Bierce
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun