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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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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.
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Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
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MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.
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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
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REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.
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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
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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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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.
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Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.
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ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.
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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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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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