A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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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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