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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

South


A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.

George Eliot


There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Ogden Nash


Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Carl Sagan


When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Ronald Reagan


There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

Emma Goldman, Anarchism (1910)


Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

George Washington


Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.

Aristophanes


Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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