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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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Don't steal thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
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PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
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Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
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RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
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adore, v.t. To venerate expectantly.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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