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I was born to poor because of honest parents.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions as, the wrath of God, the day of wrath, etc. . . .
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
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Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.
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repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.
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Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.
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The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own you are permitted only to wish to be another.
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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
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In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.
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COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. The Mad Philosopher, 1697
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An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
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