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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
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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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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God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
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The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
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MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.
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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.
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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
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INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
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REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a copy, which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose
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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
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Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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MULTITUDE, n. A crowd the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.
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Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
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Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
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The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
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REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.
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