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Ambrose Bierce

"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."

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"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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