Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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Learning is the kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious
Lawsuit is a machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better
Inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it is civilization
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools
Happiness is an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another
Faith is a belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age
Education is that which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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