Quote by Ambrose Bierce
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give t

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. – Ambrose Bierce

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Land: A part of the earths surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. – Ambrose Bierce

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Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. – Ambrose Bierce

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Knowledge is the life of the mind. – Abu Bakr

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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list. – Charles Babbage

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Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will – are all gone. – Albert J. Nock

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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. – Charles Caleb Colton

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