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Contempt the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.
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PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
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MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.
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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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RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
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CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
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WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.
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A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
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One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of hands across the sea, and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night professions of eternal amity provide the nigh
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CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
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Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
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