Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Rain Quotes, Humility Quotes

The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I think it will rain" - that is natural and modest. Montaigne is the most delightful of essayists because so great is his humility that he does not think it important that we see not Montaigne. He so forgets himself that he employs no artifice to make us forget him.

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RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

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applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

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HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

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PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

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KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.

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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

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Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

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Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

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An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.

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RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".

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Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

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A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

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