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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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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PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance... The Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.
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Take not God's name in vain select a time when it will have effect.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Congratulations is the civility of envy.
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PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.
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Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
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DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.
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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
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UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
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DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.
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LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
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WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions as, the wrath of God, the day of wrath, etc. . . .
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DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.
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INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.
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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.
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