Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce

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Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still...

Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still...

ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so...

ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so...

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is...

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is...

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is...

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is...

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of...

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of...

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly...

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly...

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and...

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and...

Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate...

Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate...

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are...

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are...

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from...

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from...

CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, _Cogito ergo...

CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, _Cogito ergo...

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory...

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory...

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth...

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth...

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love...

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love...

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to...

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to...