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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
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At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
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IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
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Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
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Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
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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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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
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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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ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
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Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.
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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
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