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Achievement the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

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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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TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
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RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.
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Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.
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RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
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In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.
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PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
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CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.
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Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.
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Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.
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LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg pate.
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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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He laughs best who laughs least.
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URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, I beg your pardon, and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.
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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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CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, Every man his own horse.
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