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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. – Ambrose Bierce

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce

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

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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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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. – Oprah Winfrey

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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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