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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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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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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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I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. Im not going to deny myself that. I think Id be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do. – Mike Myers

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My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis. – Jim Lehrer

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You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best. – Wayne Rooney

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. – Francis Bacon

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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. – Charles Darwin

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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. – Stephen Leacock

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I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else… and I will pray for you. – Gloria Gaynor

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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. – Demosthenes

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