Ambrose Bierce

Author who may or may not have died in 1914.

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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“Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy."

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

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An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

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I have upset many, and though I never right my wrongs, my weaknesses always haunt me.