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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
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Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
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Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
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Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.
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Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.
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Every life is its own excuse for being.
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Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 17 min 40 sec -
Every vice has its excuse ready.
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Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
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