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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.
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PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
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Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
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Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future Age knows her as the Dream.
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ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.
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OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an old man. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an old book.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
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A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
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A man is the sum of his ancestors to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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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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The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.
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