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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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PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.
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The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.
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Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.
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AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
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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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ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.
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Least said is soon disavowed.
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Twice – Once too often.
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Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.
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NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
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When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.
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Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
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OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .
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