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Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Noise: a stench in the ear.
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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.
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RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.
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Strive not for singularity in dress Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.
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IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul in woman, the outlet of the heart.
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Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.
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Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.
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Fear has no brains it is an idiot.
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A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.
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Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.
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Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
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PICKANINNY, n. The young of the Procyanthropos, or Americanus dominans. It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
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OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
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Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.
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GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.
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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
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