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GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
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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True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked Unknown, and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in honoring the memory of him of whom no memory remains to honor but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.
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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
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MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
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Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
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God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
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