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Ambrose Bierce
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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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Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.
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INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.
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PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument as, He presided at the piccolo.
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PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.
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Doubt is the father of invention.
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RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
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ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
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DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.
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SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Example is better than following it.
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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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