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The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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actually, adv. Perhaps possibly.
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Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.
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Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.
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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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