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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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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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WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.
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ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as One day a wag - what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! . . .
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Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
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An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
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TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
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MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.
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MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
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PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
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CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
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Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.
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plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
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ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
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WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions as, the wrath of God, the day of wrath, etc. . . .
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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
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