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

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

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Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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Water
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Ambrose Bierce
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. – Ambrose Bierce

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Failure
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Ambrose Bierce
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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. – Ambrose Bierce

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Humor
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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
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I admire the man who exclaimed, “I have lost a day!” because he had neglected to do any good in the course of it…. – Author unknown, “Flowers of Literature,” 1803

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Carpe Diem

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. – Sydney J. Harris

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Carpe Diem

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. – Jean Cocteau

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Carpe Diem

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting. – Dr. Seuss

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Carpe Diem

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If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. – Emma Goldman

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History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state. – Michael K. Simpson

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I played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers. – Danica McKellar

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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. – Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956

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