Quote by Ambrose Bierce
The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose B

The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. – Ambrose Bierce

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce

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Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. – Ambrose Bierce

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…though many a gatherer has carried his basket through these diamond districts of the mind… – William Rounseville Alger, “The Utility and the Futility of Aphorisms,” The Atla

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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. – E.M. Cioran, “Atrophy of Utterance,” All Gall Is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms,

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A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures? – Author Unknown

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Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities? – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

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