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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
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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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WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
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EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.
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Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.
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MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
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Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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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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An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
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MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .
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