“Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“Prejudice. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“History. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”
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.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
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.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.”
Ambrose Bierce
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