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A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
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A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
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REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
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Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.
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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
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A man is the sum of his ancestors to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
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Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
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