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War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

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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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PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
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Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.
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Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
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UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
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Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
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Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
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adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
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GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.
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SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose having a divine character inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions as... the Cow in India the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.
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POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.
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A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
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A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
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You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!
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Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray big belly ache, heap God.'
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MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.
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