Quote by Ambrose Bierce
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. - Ambr

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. – Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker. – Ambrose Bierce

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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. – Ambrose Bierce

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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. – Harold Bloom

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We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much. – Joshua Chamberlain

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You can never plan the future by the past. – Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly"

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I used to hurt so badly that Id ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. Thats the way I see it. – Eden Phillpotts

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