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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
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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REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.
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PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
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IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.
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Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.
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ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
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Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.
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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.
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WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.
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Happiness is lost by criticizing it sorrow by accepting it.
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.
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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.
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Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
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MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
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Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
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According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.
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