Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

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• Ambrose Bierce:

  To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of consci

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woma

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction

• Bessie Coleman:

  The air is the only place free from prejudice.

• Bessie Coleman:

  You've never lived till you've flown!

• Bessie Coleman:

  If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there shall be no regrets.

• Charles Lindbergh:

  In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to tri

• Charles Lindbergh:

  Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.