It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. - Ambrose Bierce

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Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan.

Ambrose Bierce

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

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DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

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TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.

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

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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

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