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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
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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INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.
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A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.
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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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GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an author, there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.
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PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
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You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.
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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
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PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
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An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
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I was born to poor because of honest parents.
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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.
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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
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TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
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