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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital i

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – Ambrose Bierce

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A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker. – Ambrose Bierce

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Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. – Ambrose Bierce

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Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each others pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. – Ambrose Bierce

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Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. – W. H. Auden

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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. – Miguel De Unamuno

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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. – Henry Van Dyke

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