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Longer Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled…
- OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object…
- Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to…
- OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to…
- Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the…
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- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
- To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. — Gaston Bachelard
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- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
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- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
- Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense… — Stanley Baldwin
- If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason. — Alan Ball
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