More quotes by Ambrose Bierce
When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
O proud philanthropist, your hope is vain
To get by giving what you lost by gain.
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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
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