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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!

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

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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. Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live! – 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. that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth. – Marcel Proust
  24. We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham
  25. Wealth in money, mineral resources are not the real wealth. The true wealth of nation is the character of her people. – Sunday Adelaja
  26. To make wealth wisdom, one needs to be wise. Wisdom may be able to wear the suit of wealth but wealth may not be able to wear the suit of wisdom – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  27. I’d like to say I’m not self-absorbed compared to others, but that’s hard to say since I’m far too self-absorbed to pry into others’ self-absorption. – Anonymous
  28. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. – Edmund Burke
  29. Truth stands out little in a field of truths. However, it is a ravaging lion, in a field of lies. – TA Cline
  30. The battle for hearts and minds begins in the field of memory. And in that field, age has no limit. – Psyche RoxasMendoza
  31. Yearn to grow in the field of love and bliss not in the field of competition and contemplation. – Debasish Mridha
  32. Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman’s cunt. – Lionel Shriver
  33. If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one’s feet is real in a way reading with one’s eyes alone is not. – Rebecca Solnit
  34. Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal? – David Benioff
  35. RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali – Idries Shah
  36. History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind. – Peter Adejimi
  37. Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator. – JI Packer
  38. A man’s worth isn’t measured by a bank register or diploma… It’s about integrity – Richard Paul Evans
  39. We’ are the self (chetan, Soul) and obstruction (antray) are non-self (achetan, non-Soul); therefore, the Self (chetan, Soul) shall win in the end! – Dada Bhagwan
  40. Woman, the child of so many tears shall never perish. – Ambrose of Milan

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