Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. - Ambros

Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. – Ambrose Bierce

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Sabbath – a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. – Ambrose Bierce

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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. – Ambrose Bierce

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce

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There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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