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Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!

Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!
– Ambrose Bierce

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  1. Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. – Ambrose Bierce
  2. acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. – Ambrose Bierce
  3. ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith. – Ambrose Bierce
  4. diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one’s country. – Ambrose Bierce
  5. AMNESTY, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. – Ambrose Bierce
  6. POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce
  7. GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. – Ambrose Bierce
  8. You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. – Ambrose Bierce
  9. BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. – Ambrose Bierce
  10. History -“ An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce
  11. God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. – Ambrose Bierce
  12. Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity. – Ambrose Bierce
  13. Marriage, n.: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. – Ambrose Bierce
  14. Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. – Ambrose Bierce
  15. Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke. – Ambrose Bierce
  16. So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter’s field I shall soon have both. What wealth! – Ambrose Bierce
  17. Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce
  18. Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce
  19. The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. – Ambrose Bierce
  20. In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent – Ambrose Bierce
  21. A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. – Ambrose Bierce
  22. Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence. – Ambrose Bierce
  23. The sunlight blinded her. She felt purified by its rays. She had been in the dark for so long, and in so many ways.☥ Children of Ankh series – Kim Cormack
  24. A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. – CS Lewis
  25. I’ve got a pretty good idea what children are, and we’re not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. – Orson Scott Card
  26. Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world.Morning arrives and that’s it.Sunlight darkens the earth. – Charles Wright
  27. I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people. – Dean Ambrose
  28. Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. – Albert Camus
  29. Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it’s up to the children to live up to those principles. – Mary Lydon Simonsen
  30. It is very sad to see children live like orphans while their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents. – Gugu Mona
  31. It is very sad to see children live like orphans whilst their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents. – Gift Gugu Mona
  32. Let borders become sunlight so we traverse this Earth as one nation and drive the darkness out. – Kamand Kojouri
  33. Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas?How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree? – Pablo Neruda
  34. Her thought encased in a cocoon of desire. She allows the streams of sunlight to warm the core of her being while she waits for metamorphous. – Truth Devour
  35. Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture. – Stefan Molyneux
  36. Sunlight reflecting from rippled windows greatly accelerates plant growth by up to three times normal rates. – Steven Magee
  37. Darkness gathered there, smothering out the sunlight. As the fleet headed towards it, it threatened to smother them too. – Dean F Wilson
  38. Kent steepled his fingers in consideration. Blood-red rubies flashed in the sunlight, like the eyes of a demon clutched in his hands. – VS Carnes
  39. The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer. – J Richard Singleton
  40. A shaft of sunlight pierced the dark cluds and she looked up to see a silver lining. It was a sign, she thought. – Diane Grifith

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