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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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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Twice – Once too often.
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repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.
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DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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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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PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.
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PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.
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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
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MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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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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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
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A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.
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Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.
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An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
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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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