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Habit: A shackle for the free.

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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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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.
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Take not God's name in vain select a time when it will have effect.
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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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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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Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.
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Genius - to know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.
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DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.
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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
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HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.
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Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.
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resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
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HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.
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There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
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Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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