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Experience, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Opera, n. A play representing life in another world whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures, and no postures but attitudes.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Dentist, n.: A Prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
History, n. An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Happiness, noun. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

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