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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
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YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
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PICKANINNY, n. The young of the Procyanthropos, or Americanus dominans. It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
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PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
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General, said the commander of the delinquent brigade, I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.
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You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!
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K, n. A consonant originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.
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Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.
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MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.
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Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic
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Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.
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LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
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