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Noise: a stench in the ear. - Ambrose Bierce

Noise: a stench in the ear. – Ambrose Bierce

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Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. – Ambrose Bierce

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Duty
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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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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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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. – Samuel Beckett

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Silence is a fence around wisdom. – German Proverb

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The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace. – Arabic Proverb

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Better than silence is? – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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