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“Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.”

Ambrose Bierce · Failure

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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

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