Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose BierceEloquence, 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.
Ambrose BierceDog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
Ambrose BiercePILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe], followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.
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