Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
Ambrose BierceREALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
Ambrose BierceAn old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
Ambrose BiercePainting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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