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The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

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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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THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.
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TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
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PIG, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
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OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
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PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
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moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
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ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.
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BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.
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Example is better than following it.
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self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.
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Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
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Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure
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