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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
Ambrose Bierce
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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
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The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.
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DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.
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RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.
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LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.
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DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
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DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.
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A lottery is a tax on stupidity.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.
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Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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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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ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
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adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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