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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success. - A

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success. – Ambrose Bierce

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Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the worlds worship. – Ambrose Bierce

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Dogs
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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce

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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. – Ambrose Bierce

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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. – Charles Francis Adams

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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:4 – Bible

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For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. Proverbs 24:16 – Bible

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