Ambrose Bierce

(57 votes)   Education. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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(45 votes)   Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

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(30 votes)   Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

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(26 votes)   Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

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(20 votes)   Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

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(19 votes)   Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

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(18 votes)   Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

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(16 votes)   To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

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(13 votes)   Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

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(12 votes)   Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

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(12 votes)   Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

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(10 votes)   Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

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(10 votes)   Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

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(9 votes)   Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

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(8 votes)   Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

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