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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idioc

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. – Ambrose Bierce

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Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each others pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. – Ambrose Bierce

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Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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Old age is no place for sissies. – Bette Davis

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There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later. – Mignon McLaughlin

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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. – Knut Hamsun

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I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. – George Burns

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We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individuals right to build a business. – Rick Perry

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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. – Walter Pater

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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important. – J. C. Watts

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Compression of poetry is so great I often explode. Out of the house to walk off a poem. – William Corbett, “On Reading: Notes & a Poem,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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