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PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
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PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.
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OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.
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Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.
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