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

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Nature
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Mammals: a family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. – Ambrose Bierce

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Breastfeeding
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Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffections failure to substitute misrule for bad government. – Ambrose Bierce

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Women are like elephants. I like to look at em, but I wouldnt want to own one. – W. C. Fields

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Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her. – John Vanbrugh, The Relapse, 1696

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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are. – Barbara de Angelis

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Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. – Leonardo da Vinci

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Every dollar I cant commit to my company thats paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I dont want done. – Curt Schilling

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. – Pope John Paul II

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