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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

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Land: A part of the earths surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. – Ambrose Bierce

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Society
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Ambrose Bierce
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. – Ambrose Bierce

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Credit
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Ambrose Bierce
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Carpe Diem
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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. РStephen Vincent Ben̩t

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One can make a day of any size… – John Muir, August 1875 [I love how this sounds like it could so beautifully appl

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Carpe Diem

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. – Henry S. Haskins

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Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear. – Author Unknown

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I go to school the youth to learn the future. – Robert Frost

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Precept guides, but example draws. – Proverb

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Example

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. – Lord Chesterfield

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Dance, Dancing

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow. – Thomas Ingoldsby, “The Spectre of Tappington,” 1837

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Ghosts