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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good for

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. – Ambrose Bierce

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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. – Ambrose Bierce

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Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. – David Seabury

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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. – Antisthenes

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