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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. What! said one of his disciples, you weep at the death of an enemy? Ah, 'tis true, replied the great Stoic but you should see me smile at the death of a friend..
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PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.
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RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.
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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
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POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
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LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.
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A lottery is a tax on stupidity.
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OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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Take not God's name in vain select a time when it will have effect.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
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True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked Unknown, and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in honoring the memory of him of whom no memory remains to honor but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.
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CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
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DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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