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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance... The Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.
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No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
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alone, adj. In bad company.
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EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.
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CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
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A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.
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ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
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Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
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QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
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Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople, one who does.
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Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.
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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
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Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
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