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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.
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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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Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.
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ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
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The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
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MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
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WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
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CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
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Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.
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The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.
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If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
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ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.
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Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.
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