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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
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POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.
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There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself whereas he is a fool then only.
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General, said the commander of the delinquent brigade, I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.
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Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
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Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
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Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.
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Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
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PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.
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To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that
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diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
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The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.
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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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