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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
— Ambrose Bierce
Tags: dead, friends, enemies, ambition
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
— Ambrose Bierce
Tags: crime, destiny, fool, failure
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
— Ambrose Bierce
Tags: hours, period, day, time
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
— Ambrose Bierce
Tags: democrats, republican, who, country
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