An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. – Ambrose Bierce
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. – Ambrose Bierce

An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. – Ambrose Bierce
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. – Ambrose Bierce
Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce
Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C. – Ambrose Bierce