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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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PICKANINNY, n. The young of the Procyanthropos, or Americanus dominans. It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
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PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
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The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.
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A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
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DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
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MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
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When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection thine own is open at thy feet.
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A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something
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WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
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LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
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Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
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Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
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Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.
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Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.
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Congratulations is the civility of envy.
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DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.
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