"Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness."
-Ambrose Bierce
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"Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.“
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"Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of."
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"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
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"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
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"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
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