To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
Ambrose BiercePHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
Ambrose BierceEnthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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