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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesir

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

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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. – Ambrose Bierce

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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. – Ambrose Bierce

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On the one hand, well never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. – Bruce Willis

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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. – Frank McCourt

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The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly. – Jeremy Renner

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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard

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I dont think you can tell the objective truth about a person. Thats why people write novels. – A. N. Wilson

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