Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
AMBROSE BIERCESweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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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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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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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.
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Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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