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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
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Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
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Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.
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The god of the world's leading religion.
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ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
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ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .
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A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
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OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Don't steal thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
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