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CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do me?

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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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RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.
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COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
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NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.
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LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.
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diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
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Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
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FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.
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A man is the sum of his ancestors to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
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ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
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Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
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UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.
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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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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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