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Least said is soon disavowed.

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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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DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
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We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.
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NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.
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Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.
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RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
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Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.
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INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
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It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
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Die: To stop sinning suddenly.
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General, said the commander of the delinquent brigade, I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.
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READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and humor in slang.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
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A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
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LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.
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