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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with A >> Quotes By Ambrose Gwinett Bierce |
| Quote #1: | "Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction." |
| Quote #2: | "Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things." |
| Quote #3: | "History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." |
| Quote #4: | "Pray To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy." |
| Quote #5: | "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher." |
| Quote #6: | "Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to." |
| Quote #7: | "Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion." |
| Quote #8: | "Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure." |
| Quote #9: | "Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another." |
| Quote #10: | "The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity." |
| Quote #11: | "This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past." |
| Quote #12: | "Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me." |
| Quote #13: | "There are four kinds of Homicide felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy." |
| Quote #14: | "Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another." |
| Quote #15: | "We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over." |
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