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Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Duty
Ambrose Bierce

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

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Habit is a shackle for the free.
Habit
Ambrose Bierce

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.
Happiness
Ambrose Bierce

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Childhood
Ambrose Bierce

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Marriage
Ambrose Bierce

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Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.
Atheism
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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Learning
Ambrose Bierce

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
Life and Living
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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Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Optimism
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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Politeness -- The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Politeness
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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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Anger
Ambrose Bierce

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Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
Success
Ambrose Bierce

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

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The covers of this book are too far apart.
Critics and Criticism
Ambrose Bierce

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The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
Gambling
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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun