To the eye of failure success is an accident.
AMBROSE BIERCEHe who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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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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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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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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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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