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Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession it meant own, and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.
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An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
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IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.
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Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.
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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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POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.
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ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.
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BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
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Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
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DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.
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CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
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predicament, n. The wage of consistency.
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REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter
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Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager
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CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
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picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
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EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: O fudge!
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