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 BIERCEA 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.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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