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Brain Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.
- BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man…
- Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth…
- APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an…
- MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility…
- Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.
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