| 11 Famous Quotes by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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“Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
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“Abstainer - a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”
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“An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.”
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“Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.”
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“Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.”
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“Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.”
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“Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.”
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“History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”
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“Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.”
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“Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.”
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“Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.”
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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