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Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.
History and Historians
Ambrose Bierce

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
Knowledge
Ambrose Bierce

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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Laziness
Ambrose Bierce

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Learning
Ambrose Bierce

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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
Law Suits
Ambrose Bierce

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Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
Drugs
Ambrose Bierce

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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Patriotism
Ambrose Bierce

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Physician -- One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
Physicians
Ambrose Bierce

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Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
Prophecy
Ambrose Bierce

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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Religion
Ambrose Bierce

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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Ambrose Bierce

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Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited.
Saints
Ambrose Bierce

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Anger
Ambrose Bierce

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The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Quotations
Ambrose Bierce

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The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
Congress
Ambrose Bierce

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
Marriage
Ambrose Bierce

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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
Planning
Ambrose Bierce

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Truth -- An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
Truth
Ambrose Bierce

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Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Wit
Ambrose Bierce

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Woman absent is woman dead.
Absence
Ambrose Bierce

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The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Oppression
Steven Biko

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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Animals
Josh Billings

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
Friends and Friendship
Josh Billings

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
Marriage
Josh Billings

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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Truth
Josh Billings

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun