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The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.

Ambrose Bierce

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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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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
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You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!
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OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
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EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
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ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.
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Least said is soon disavowed.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.
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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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Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
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BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.
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We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.
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