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Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexp

Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. – Ambrose Bierce

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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce

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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. – Ambrose Bierce

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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely, that he is a blockhead. – Ambrose Bierce

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Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. – Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby

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Ive got volumes on how not to behave. Ive got more information now than a guy should have at my age. – Charlie Sheen

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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. – Thomas Carlyle

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You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. – Douglas MacArthur

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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there. – Bono

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