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If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Take not God's name in vain select a time when it will have effect.
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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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Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
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A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something
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OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession it meant own, and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.
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ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.
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TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
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PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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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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RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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art, n. This word has no definition.
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