There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
AMBROSE BIERCEKnowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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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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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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