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Doubt is the father of invention.

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
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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.
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EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other-which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of the dog.
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READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and humor in slang.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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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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CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
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FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London
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Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
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Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
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Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber they fertilize.
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You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.
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HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.
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LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
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OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
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Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure
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