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

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Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the worlds worship. – Ambrose Bierce

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I like my wine like my women – ready to pass out. – Robin Williams

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Yes, its a mans world, but thats all right because theyre making a total mess of it. Were chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think its a difficult task, but its not. – Cher

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues. – Honore de Balzac

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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. – Henry James

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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive. – Stephen Leacock

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