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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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VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.
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NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.
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Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.
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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.
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NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
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CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.
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YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
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BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
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picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
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JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.
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LINEN, n. A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp.
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ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.
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While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
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Congratulations is the civility of envy.
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ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.
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MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.
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Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
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