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Our Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
- Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of…
- Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
- We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
- Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
- Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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