A Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Advice, the smallest current coin.
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Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
This barren verbiage, current among men,
Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.
This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.
My advice is flip a coin. If you regret the way it landed, then go with your gut.
Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.
There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of a laugh, say what he may. He may utter as much nonsense as he pleases, and all will pass current. No one stops to question the coin of a rich man; but a poor devil cannot pass off either a joke or a guinea without its being examined on both sides. Wit and coin are always doubted with a threadbare coat.
The promises of God are equal to current coin. Therefore, I must act on the promises as I would if I actually had the cash.
Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.
Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.
The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.
I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?
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