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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. – Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. – Ambrose Bierce

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Fear
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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

Category:
Art
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Ambrose Bierce
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. – Ambrose Bierce

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Justice
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Ambrose Bierce
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Other Quotes from
Time
category

Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits. – Author Unknown

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Time

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence — neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish — it is an imponderably valuable gift. – Maya Angelou

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Time

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. – Epictetus

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Time

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. – John Steinbeck

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Time

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I have the solution to the “problem” of gays in the military: Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture, or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly, we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons. – Robert Patrick, Los Angeles, California, letter to the editor, The Advocate, 199

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Homosexuality

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. – Frances Wright

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Courage

Most marriages can survive “better or worse.” The tester is all the years of “exactly the same.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Marriage

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. – Thomas Jefferson

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Presidents Day