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Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.


Ambrose Bierce

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QUINTILIAN Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
QUINTILIAN Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
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RUSSIAN PROVERB A wise man was once foolish and throw foolishness did he become wise
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AMBROSE BIERCE TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeab...
AMBROSE BIERCE Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
AMBROSE BIERCE Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
AMBROSE BIERCE Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and wa...
AMBROSE BIERCE The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
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