"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."

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Ambrose Bierce

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“Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fateâ€™s immortal loom”
“Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.”
“I love Jesus as much as I ever have. And I'm gay. Deal with it.”
“I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.”
“A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet.”
“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”
“You cannot step into the same river twice.”
“Paper is always strongest at the perforations.”

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