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If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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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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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.
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LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.
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ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.
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OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
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The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own you are permitted only to wish to be another.
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A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
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RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.
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NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.
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RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
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DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
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Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
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VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.
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predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
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The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.
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MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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