Author: Ambrose Bierce

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Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

- Ambrose Bierce

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

- Ambrose Bierce

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

- Ambrose Bierce

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

- Ambrose Bierce

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

- Ambrose Bierce

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

- Ambrose Bierce

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

- Ambrose Bierce

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

- Ambrose Bierce

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

- Ambrose Bierce

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