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"Woman absent is woman dead."
Author:     Ambrose Bierce Category:     Absence

"An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."
Author:     Ambrose Bierce Category:     Acquaintance

"Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
Author:     Ambrose Bierce Category:     Alliances

"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others."
Author:     Ambrose Bierce Category:     Calamity

"Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due."
Author:     Ambrose Bierce Category:     Compromise

"Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions."
Author:     Ambrose Bierce Category:     Credit

"Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience."
Author:     Ambrose Bierce Category:     Debt

"Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
Author:     Ambrose Bierce Category:     Education

"Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
Author:     Ambrose Bierce Category:     Experience

"Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable."
Author:     Ambrose Bierce Category:     Laughter


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