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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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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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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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adore, v.t. To venerate expectantly.
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FORCE, n. Force is but might, the teacher said p/ That definition's just./ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ Force is not might but must!
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RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
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The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of remarkable Christian forbearance among men - were it not for a mawkish humanitarianism, coupled with imperfect digestive powers, we should devour our young, as Nature intended.
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General, said the commander of the delinquent brigade, I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.
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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
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A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
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HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
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OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.
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