Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Dog Quotes, Latin Quotes

J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.

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The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

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The remedy is worse than the disease.

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Don't waste the opportunity.

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Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.

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The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

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The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

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Times change, and we change with them.

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When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

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Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

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Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.

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Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

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He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

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When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of freedom apply fully to Africa and Latin America and the entire Islamic world. The peoples of the Islamic nations want and deserve the same freedoms and opportunities as people in every nation. And their governments should listen to their hopes.

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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

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The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

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I shall not completely die.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

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One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

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