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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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Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
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NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
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Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
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A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.
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REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.
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resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
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An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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A man is known by the company he organizes.
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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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Twice – Once too often.
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MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
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MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
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FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
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