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Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.
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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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MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
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MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.
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NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
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The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
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BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.
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NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.
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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
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In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.
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REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting
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plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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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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RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.
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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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Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
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