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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.
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VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.
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Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.
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PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
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DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
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OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
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MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.
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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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The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.
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RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.
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COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
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Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.
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There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
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Fear has no brains it is an idiot.
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