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ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (Musca maledicta). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.
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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
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RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.
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J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, jacere, to throw, because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.
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The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.
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TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
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FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.
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plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
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A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.
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PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
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DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.
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A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.
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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
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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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UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.
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PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
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HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.
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