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Wise Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
- Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
- NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.
- Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
- Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
- Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
- ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind…
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