Quote by Ambrose Bierce
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. – Ambrose Bierce

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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce

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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. – Ambrose Bierce

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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Nothing fails like success because we dont learn from it. We learn only from failure. – Kenneth Ewart Boulding

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In Washington, success is just a training course for failure. – Simon Hoggart

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Our managers hadnt had that kind of success – the record company hadnt, we hadnt – and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasnt it would be some kind of failure. – Roland Gift

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Ah, yes, I wrote the Purple Cow — Im sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, Ill kill you if you quote it. – Gelett Burgess

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