Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesira

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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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. – Ambrose Bierce

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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. – Ambrose Bierce

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Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. – Ambrose Bierce

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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. – Harold MacMillan

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Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless Id gotten a piano scholarship. And now Im so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, youre flexing a different muscle, but its beautiful because it is music. – Jamie Foxx

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Thats one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot. – Liev Schreiber

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Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics. – Mary Daly

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I have faith in the jury system. – Nancy Grace

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Pity cost nothing and aint worth nothing. – Josh Billings

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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. – Robert A. Heinlein

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