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Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Edible - 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.
- 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.
- Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
- Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
- Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
- Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
- Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
- Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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