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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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HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.
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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
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UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
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Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.
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A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.
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Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
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POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.
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Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
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IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
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