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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.
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EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
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DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.
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Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
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DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.
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PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
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