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Exception Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
- OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in an exception a proof of the rule the wisdom of…
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- The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. — Jane Addams
- Science does not permit exceptions. — Claude Bernard
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- No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. — Robert Burton
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