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Reason Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
- Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
- Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.…
- Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be…
- REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.
- GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
- REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
- As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to…
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