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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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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.
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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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NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- I think that I think, therefore I think that I am as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.
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WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread per capita of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.
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Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.
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PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
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Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.
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BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.
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Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.
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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.
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Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.
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IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
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A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
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Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.
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GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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