He 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.
AMBROSE BIERCEAll are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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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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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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