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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.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.
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GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
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Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
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DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
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Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.
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Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
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NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.
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REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.
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IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.
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PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.
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He laughs best who laughs least.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
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