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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of hands across the sea, and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night professions of eternal amity provide the nigh
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IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
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COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.
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Die: To stop sinning suddenly.
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R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than reductus in pulvis.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
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PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.
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CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
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REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.
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What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
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QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.
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MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.
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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
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Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.
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