Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. – Ambrose Bierce

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. – Ambrose Bierce
Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C. – Ambrose Bierce
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffections failure to substitute misrule for bad government. – Ambrose Bierce