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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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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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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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The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.
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NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
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ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
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INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
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SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.
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To seek a justification for a decision already made.
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REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a copy, which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose
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There's no free will, says the philosopher To hang is most unjust. There is no free will, assents the officer We hang because we must.
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REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
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