Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth
Doubt is the father of invention
Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible
Destiny is the name we give to a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure
Debt is an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver
Cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be
Coward is the one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs
Consult is to seek approval for a course of action already decided upon
Childhood is the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others
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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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