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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Any Appear Appears Art Color Eloquence Fools Gift Making White

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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Acquaintance Embraced Enables Experience Folly Old Recognise Undesirable Us Wisdom

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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Apologize Foundation Future Lay Offense

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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Affairs Assured Friends Future Happiness Our Period Prosper Time True Which

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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Meekness Patience Planning Revenge Uncommon While Worth

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Childhood: 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.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Age Between Childhood Folly Human Human Life Idiocy Infancy Life Manhood Period Remorse Sin Three Two Youth

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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Calamities Fortune Good Good Fortune Kinds Misfortunes Others Ourselves Two

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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.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Becoming Bent Cherished Danger Denial Doubt Establishment Full Honest Investigation Lead May Soon Thorough Truth

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Believes Country Democrat Democrats Republican Republicans Ruin Ruined Who Would

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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Apparatus Brain Think Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 24th, 1842

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