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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
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Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure
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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
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QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.
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The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.
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REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
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MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.
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PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.
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PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution - they knew no more of the matter than he.
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A lottery is a tax on stupidity.
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Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.
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EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.
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PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.
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MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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I think I think, therefore I think I am.
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One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.
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PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.
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There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself whereas he is a fool then only.
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SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.
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LINEN, n. A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp.
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BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.
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