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International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
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Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.
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