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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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MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.
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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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APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
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PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
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PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
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ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
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Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.
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Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
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HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.
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Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.
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A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.
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