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An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
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OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.
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ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.
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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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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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New York is too strenuous for me it gets on my nerves.
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Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future Age knows her as the Dream.
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Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.
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RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries . .
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TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.
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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
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A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
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SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.
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PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
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