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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
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ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. The Mad Philosopher, 1697
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
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MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.
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TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
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The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.
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REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.
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LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Happiness is lost by criticizing it sorrow by accepting it.
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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
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PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.
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Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.
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HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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