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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying abo

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. – Ambrose Bierce

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Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. – 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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Todays younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. – Al Capp

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. – Aristotle

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Im trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week. – Erma Bombeck

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Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18. – Jim Bishop

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Underneath courage shouts fear but of a hoarse voice. – Terri Guillemets

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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. – Dag Hammarskjold

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A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better. – Norman Ralph Augustine

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The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. – Robert Bierstedt

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