Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. Ambrose Bierce Read Quote
Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. Ambrose Bierce Read Quote
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. Ambrose Bierce Read Quote
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. Ambrose Bierce Read Quote
Land: A part of the earth’s surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. Ambrose Bierce Read Quote
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. Ambrose Bierce Read Quote
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Bierce Read Quote
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. Ambrose Bierce Read Quote
