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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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. – Ambrose Bierce

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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. – Ambrose Bierce

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The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. – Henry David Thoreau

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Analysts may be correct that the presidential election wont primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins. – David Limbaugh

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To that daintiest siren of puff and perfume, a Turkish cigarette. – Minna Thomas Antrim, “To La Cigarette,” A Book of Toasts, 1902

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Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements. – Alfonso X

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