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Admiration; is our polite recognition of anothers resemblance to o

Admiration; is our polite recognition of anothers resemblance to ourselves. – 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

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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

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Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips. – Bible

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