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That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
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EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
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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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Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere survivals - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
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PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.
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A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.
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A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.
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REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter
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