"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."
-Ambrose Bierce
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"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
-Ambrose Bierce
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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."
-Ambrose Bierce
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"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
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"Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow."
-Ambrose Bierce
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"Those are the men who will dance at your wedding."
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"I mean, I do wear a wedding ring and take it off when I shoot."
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"I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that."
-Natasha Hamilton
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"You have to make your wedding day all about you."
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"My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!"
-Anne Baxter
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"The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy."
-Janet Street-Porter
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