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Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

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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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PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.
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Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.
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FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
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LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.
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pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.
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Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.
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MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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