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A man is known by the company he organizes.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Meigs County
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do me?
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A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
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PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.
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REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.
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REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.
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SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.
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GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries . .
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FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
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EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.
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