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A man is known by the company he organizes.

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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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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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According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.
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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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MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.
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HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
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UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.
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