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- 21. Joseph Fischer: Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.

- 22. George Meredith: I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

- 23. Edith Evans: When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

- 24. Dame Edith Sitwell: I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

- 25. Dame Edith Sitwell: I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of a ...

- 26. Ambrose Bierce: CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance -- ...

- 27. Ambrose Bierce: CONVENT, n. A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upo ...

- 28. Ambrose Bierce: CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and ...

- 29. Ambrose Bierce: DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit a ...

- 30. Ambrose Bierce: EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus a ...

- 31. Ambrose Bierce: GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a h ...

- 32. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...

- 33. Ambrose Bierce: HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and ...

- 34. Ambrose Bierce: LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ...

- 35. Ambrose Bierce: LUMINARY, n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing ab ...

- 36. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...

- 37. Ambrose Bierce: MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the qual ...

- 38. Ambrose Bierce: OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general ine ...

- 39. Ambrose Bierce: OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including wh ...

- 40. Ambrose Bierce: PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an ...

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