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Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
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ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
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R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than reductus in pulvis.
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Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.
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REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.
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PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence an attribute of the critic.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.
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plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
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LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
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The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.
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SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.
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While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
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DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.
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Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
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CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.
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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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Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.
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