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- Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
- The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vidal Sassoon
- Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Love, n - A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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