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Ambrose Bierce quotes


The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

 

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

 

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

 

Christian: One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

 

Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

 

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

 

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

 

A medal is a small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic.

 

Prayer is asking the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

 

WEDDING, n. A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

 


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