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Contempt the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned . . . . whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.
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BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.
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NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
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REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
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PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
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repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.
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MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul in woman, the outlet of the heart.
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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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gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.
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Brain, v. [as in to brain]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly to dispel a source of error in an opponent.
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