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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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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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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.
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HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
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Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
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Genius - to know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
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