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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

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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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QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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