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Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

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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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IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
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SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.
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RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.
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Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople, one who does.
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adore, v.t. To venerate expectantly.
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MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
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GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.
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I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.
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A man is known by the company he organizes.
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UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
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LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
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Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
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RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.
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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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A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.
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RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.
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moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber they fertilize.
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