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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

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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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TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.
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Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.
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It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
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CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.
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PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
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HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
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DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
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Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.
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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
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Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.
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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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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
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mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.
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