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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good for

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. – Antisthenes

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