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A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Meigs County
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.
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Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
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Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
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I think I think, therefore I think I am.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.
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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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