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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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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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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REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
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Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.
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MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.
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PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss yet when lost it is not missed.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
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applause, n. The echo of a platitude.
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SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
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REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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War: A by-product of the arts of peace.
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TRUCE, n. Friendship.
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Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.
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Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
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