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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.
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PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.
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NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
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A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.
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RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.
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LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.
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The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
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SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.
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PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.
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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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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
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PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.
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