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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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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
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General, said the commander of the delinquent brigade, I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.
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