Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglo

Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. – Ambrose Bierce

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce

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Every success story has a parent who says, over my dead body. Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when youre acting the fool, you know I worry about you sometimes. – Bill Cosby

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I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of Dallas. – Larry Hagman

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Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice. – Barbra Streisand

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. – Andre Gide

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The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event – not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics – then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light. – Simon Winchester

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