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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
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prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
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