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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
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ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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A modern school where football is taught.
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RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.
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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as liquor, sometimes as rum. Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
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The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own you are permitted only to wish to be another.
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TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
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IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
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Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.
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Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting
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Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.
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PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.
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Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.
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Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
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Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.
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