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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
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
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Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.
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HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
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adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. The Mad Philosopher, 1697
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Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
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HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.
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Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.
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RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.
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Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.
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DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
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X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.
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What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
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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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ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.
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hybrid, n. A pooled issue.
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