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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
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One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of hands across the sea, and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night professions of eternal amity provide the nigh
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The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.
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Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.
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The Psalms are the voices of the church.
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OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession it meant own, and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.
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MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.
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MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
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PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.
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Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
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An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
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I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere survivals - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
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EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
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RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.
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Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.
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Don't steal thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.
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