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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
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INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.
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SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.
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OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
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ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.
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What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
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Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.
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OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
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JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.
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Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
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That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
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Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.
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LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.
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BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.
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IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
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GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
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MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
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Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
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The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.
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