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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
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