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MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.M is for Moses, Who slew the Egyptian. As sweet as a rose is The meekness of Moses. No monument shows his Post-mortem inscription, But M is for Moses Who slew the Egyptian. --_The Biographical Alphabet_


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WERNER BOTHA The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monume...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I am who I am', said God to Moses regarding His name,
because none was worth to be compared to ...
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Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
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JEFFREY FRY Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
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NATALIE URQUIETA I want to be like Edwin Moses,
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C. JOYBELL C. I want to be like Edwin Moses.
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CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias: / Who appeared in glory, and...
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WARREN EYSTER My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses.. wait.. ! I am receiving a correction ...
JOHN C LEHMAN I want to be like Edwin Moses,
RICHARD JACKSON As Moses threw whatever in his hand on the ground,
so does hand should do what it can to earn m...
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NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
A. E. WAITE Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
DEYTH BANGER La prossima volta è il tuo turno con la sedia" disse Ottobre.
"Lo so" mormorò Novembre. Era p...
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AMBROSE BIERCE Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pi...
AMBROSE BIERCE Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.
AMBROSE BIERCE They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
AMBROSE BIERCE Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
AMBROSE BIERCE Deliberation. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
AMBROSE BIERCE PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
AMBROSE BIERCE Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
AMBROSE BIERCE Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
AMBROSE BIERCE An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
AMBROSE BIERCE Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
AMBROSE BIERCE Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
AMBROSE BIERCE To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
AMBROSE BIERCE The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
AMBROSE BIERCE Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is give...
AMBROSE BIERCE Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscien...
AMBROSE BIERCE The covers of this book are too far apart.
AMBROSE BIERCE The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
AMBROSE BIERCE To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
AMBROSE BIERCE Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Rom...
AMBROSE BIERCE Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his o...
AMBROSE BIERCE Woman absent is woman dead.
AMBROSE BIERCE DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.
AMBROSE BIERCE Calamities are of two kinds. Misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
AMBROSE BIERCE YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the So...
AMBROSE BIERCE Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
AMBROSE BIERCE Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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