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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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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.
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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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PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] reading character in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word dupe.
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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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IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.
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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. The Mad Philosopher, 1697
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Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
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Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.
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QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.
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INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.
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HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.
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RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
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