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Woman absent is woman dead.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
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You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!
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TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
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ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
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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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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Fear has no brains it is an idiot.
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PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
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Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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hybrid, n. A pooled issue.
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Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.
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ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.
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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.
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