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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
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Fear has no brains it is an idiot.
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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
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He laughs best who laughs least.
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Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.
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The wife, or bitter half.
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When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.
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GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.
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WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread per capita of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
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ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
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SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.
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Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure
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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
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CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, Every man his own horse.
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