[ ambrose bierce Quotes ]
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
[ Knowledge ]
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
[ Laziness ]
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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
[ Learning ]
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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
[ Life and Living ]
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
[ Law Suits ]
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Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
[ Drugs ]
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Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
[ Optimism ]
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Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
[ Patience ]
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
[ Patriotism ]
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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
[ Peace ]
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Physician -- One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
[ Physicians ]
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Politeness -- The most acceptable hypocrisy.
[ Politeness ]
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Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
[ Prophecy ]
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
[ Religion ]
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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
[ Revolutions and Revolutionaries ]
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Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited.
[ Saints ]
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
[ Anger ]
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
[ Success ]
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Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
[ Swearing ]
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The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
[ Quotations ]
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
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The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
[ Gambling ]
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The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
[ Congress ]
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
[ Marriage ]
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
[ Vanity ]
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Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
[ Forgiveness ]
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To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
[ Certainty ]
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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
[ Planning ]
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Truth -- An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
[ Truth ]
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When in Rome, do as Rome does.
[ Cities and City Life ]
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Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
[ Wit ]
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Woman absent is woman dead.
[ Absence ]
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