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“Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.”

Ambrose Bierce · Hope

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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Failure

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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Love

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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Experience

Ambrose Bierce

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Jealousy