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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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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.
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APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
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Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
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Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
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MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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He laughs best who laughs least.
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JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. The Mad Philosopher, 1697
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A man is known by the company he organizes.
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ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
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Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.
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PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.
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MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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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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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
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OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
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