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What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
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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At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
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REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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I think I think, therefore I think I am.
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TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
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A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.
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PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence an attribute of the critic.
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X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.
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K, n. A consonant originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.
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In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.
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Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.
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QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.
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In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.
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IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.
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To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.
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GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
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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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RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.
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