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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
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Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.
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Die: To stop sinning suddenly.
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.
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TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
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AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
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BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.
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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
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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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Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.
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art, n. This word has no definition.
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
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ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.
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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
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