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Failure Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes…
- Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
- Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
- REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
- PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
- GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into…
- INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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