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Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. – Ambrose Bierce

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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. – Ambrose Bierce

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A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker. – Ambrose Bierce

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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. – Daphne du Maurier

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Women are the real reason we get up every day. Im talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys Im hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her. – Steve Harvey

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The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution. – Joseph Ratzinger

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