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Practice Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.…
- ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy…
- PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
- PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
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- To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. — Henry Ward Beecher
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