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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
Ambrose Bierce
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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
Ambrose Bierce
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ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.
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RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.
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A man is the sum of his ancestors to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
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RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.
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Human nature is pretty well balanced for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
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Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.
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Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
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DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
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CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
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AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
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COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.
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