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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
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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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
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gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
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MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.
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DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
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PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.
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Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.
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REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.
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RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.
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Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.
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A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
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MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.
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