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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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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ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.
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There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.
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WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.
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Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
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CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.
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Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.
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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
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PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
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When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.
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NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.
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