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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – January 11, 1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist.

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

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Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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

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

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

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