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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repen

Enthusiasm – a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. – 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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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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