Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
AMBROSE BIERCETo the eye of failure success is an accident.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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