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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
Aphorist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.
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Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.
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RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as liquor, sometimes as rum. Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
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DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.
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Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.
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War: A by-product of the arts of peace.
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PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
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RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.
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NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
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TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
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PIG, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
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PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
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The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.
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