"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised…" — Ambrose Bierce

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• Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a… — Jane Austen
• We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised… — James Agee
• Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That… — Sri Chinmoy
• In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work… — Northrop Frye
• When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others,… — Gerry Spence
• You can't tell a kid that it's time to exercise; that's a turn-off...you have to say 'Let's go to the… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
• There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in… — J. D. Sedding
• Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it,… — Leo Tolstoy
• It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the… — Thomas de Quincey
• Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god. — Francis Picabia
• New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. — Laozi

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